title: Prosthetic valve endocarditis 7 months after transcatheter aortic valve implantation diagnosed with 3D TEE.
abstract: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was introduced as an alternative treatment for patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis for whom surgery would be high-risk. Prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis is a serious complication of surgical AVR (SAVR) with high morbidity and mortality. According to recent cases, post-TAVI prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) seems to occur very rarely. We present the case of a 75-year-old woman who underwent TAVI (Edwards Saphien XT) with an uneventful postoperative stay. She was diagnosed with endocarditis using three dimensional (3D) echocardiography on the TAVI device 7 months later and she subsequently underwent surgical aortic valve replacement. Little experience of the interpretation of transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and the clinical course and effectiveness of treatment strategies in post-TAVI endocarditis exists. We report a case of PVE in a TAVI patient which was diagnosed with three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography (3DTEE).
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Ataturk Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. Electronic address: cengaver61@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Cenk
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sarı
authors.affiliation: Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Cardiology Department, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Tahir
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Durmaz
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Ataturk Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Bilge Duran
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Karaduman
authors.affiliation: Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Cardiology Department, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Telat
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Keleş
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ataturk Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Hüseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bayram
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Ataturk Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Serdal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baştuğ
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Ataturk Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet Burak
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Özen
authors.affiliation: Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Cardiology Department, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Nihal Akar
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Bayram
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Ataturk Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Emine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bilen
authors.affiliation: Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Cardiology Department, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Hüseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ayhan
authors.affiliation: Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Cardiology Department, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Hacı Ahmet
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Kasapkara
authors.affiliation: Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Cardiology Department, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Engin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bozkurt
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D065467:Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement / Q000009:adverse effects*
keywords: 3D echocardiography; Infective endocarditis; Transcatheter aortic valve implantation