title: Surgical treatment in a patient with multiple systemic complications of prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis: case report.
abstract: A 31-year-old woman who had undergone aortic and mitral valve replacement 1 year previously was hospitalized with suspected prosthetic valve endocarditis. Freestyle stentless aortic xenograft was successfully replaced using freestanding total aortic root replacement techniques at the left ventricular outflow tract position, and aorta-to-right coronary artery bypass was also applied with a saphenous vein graft. The patient developed multiple systemic problems during the preoperative and postoperative periods and was successfully treated with intensive interventions. She was discharged at the postoperative fourth month, and the following 28 months were uneventful.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Atatürk University Medical Faculty, Erzurum, Turkey. necipbecit@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Necip
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Becit
authors.forename: Münacettin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ceviz
authors.forename: Hikmet
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koçak
authors.forename: Kamil Yalçin
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Polat
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001011:Aorta / Q000637:transplantation; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D001705:Bioprosthesis; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D012086:Reoperation; D013552:Swine