[Successful treatment for prosthetic valve endocarditis with use of strip shaped pericardum].
We presented a case of endocarditis with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis that was successfully treated with linezolid. Endocarditis has been hard to cure completely with either antibiotics or surgery. In particular, it is harder to eradicate disease-causing bacteria when it is staphylococci or streptococci. In this case, an innovative operative technique and a new kind of antibiotics were involved after the failure with some sorts of antibiotics. We put a strip shaped pericardium around a newly implanted artificial ring to prevent its organism from touching it. This technique costs little and may be easy to handle, thus it may become a reliable technique for endocarditis.
Yanatori
Makoto
M
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagara Medical Center, Gifu, Japan.
Tomita
S
S
Ueno
Y
Y
Miura
Y
Y
Goto
T
T
Komeda
M
M
D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000601:surgery*; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D008875:Middle Aged; D010496:Pericardium; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000601:surgery*; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections; D013212:Staphylococcus epidermidis / Q000187:drug effects