title: Shelhigh no-react pulmonic valve conduit for pulmonary valve endocarditis.
abstract: Pulmonary valve endocarditis is uncommon, so experience of surgical treatment is limited. A case of pulmonary valve endocarditis in a 26-year-old man, with associated extension into the pulmonary valve annulus and vegetations in the main pulmonary artery, is described. This necessitated surgical excision of the main pulmonary artery and pulmonary valve including the root, annulus, and part of the right ventricular outflow tract. The defect was reconstructed with a Shelhigh No-React porcine pulmonic valve conduit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0QT, United Kingdom. neil.roberts@stgeorges.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: Maciej J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Matuszewski
authors.forename: Nick J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Morgan-Hughes
authors.forename: Glen Al
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D013504:Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D011664:Pulmonary Valve