Surgical management of infective endocarditis after heart-lung transplantation.
Bacterial endocarditis after heart-lung transplantation has not been described. We report Staphylococcus aureus bacterial endocarditis in a 12-year-old boy after heart-lung transplantation. He was found to have an apparently free vegetation in his left ventricle, which was surgically removed. After a stormy postoperative period, he successfully recovered and remains well after 6 months.
Hasan
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Department of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.
Hamilton
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Au
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Gascoigne
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Corris
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Freeman
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Dark
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D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D004452:Echocardiography; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D016041:Heart-Lung Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*