Surgical repair of mitral and tricuspid valves after cardiac transplantation.
A 43-year-old man underwent mitral valve repair for mitral valve insufficiency due to infective endocarditis, and tricuspid valve repair for iatrogenic chordal rupture due to multiple endomyocardial biopsies after orthotopic cardiac transplantation. Valve repair using no artificial material is feasible, instead of valve replacement, to decrease the risk of recurrent infective endocarditis and enable further biopsies.
Yoshikawa
Masaharu
M
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Toyota Kosei Hospital Toyota, Aichi, Japan. m-yoshikawa@toyota.jaaikosei.or.jp
Tomari
Shirou
S
Usui
Akihiko
A
Ueda
Yuichi
Y
D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002815:Chordae Tendineae / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000601:surgery; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery