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A 34-Year-Old Male Intravenous Drug User with a Third Episode of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Treated with Repeat Valve Surgery
Patient: Male, 34-year-old Final Diagnosis: Infective endocarditis of the tricuspid valve Symptoms: Lethargy • weakness Medication: — Clinical Procedure: Tricuspid valve repair • tricuspid valve replacement Specialty: Anesthesiology • Cardiac Surgery • Infectious Diseases • Psychiatry OBJECTIVE: Unu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8021270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33776054 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.927385 |
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author | Cannon, Jeffrey W. Hayanga, J.W. Awori Drvar, Thomas B. Ellison, Matthew Cook, Christopher Salman, Muhammad Roberts, Harold Badhwar, Vinay Hayanga, Heather K. |
author_facet | Cannon, Jeffrey W. Hayanga, J.W. Awori Drvar, Thomas B. Ellison, Matthew Cook, Christopher Salman, Muhammad Roberts, Harold Badhwar, Vinay Hayanga, Heather K. |
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description | Patient: Male, 34-year-old Final Diagnosis: Infective endocarditis of the tricuspid valve Symptoms: Lethargy • weakness Medication: — Clinical Procedure: Tricuspid valve repair • tricuspid valve replacement Specialty: Anesthesiology • Cardiac Surgery • Infectious Diseases • Psychiatry OBJECTIVE: Unusual clinical course BACKGROUND: Intravenous drug use is an epidemic in the United States. One of the complications of intravenous drug use can be infective endocarditis. The treatment for this disease is a combination of intravenous antibiotics, cardiac surgery consultation, and multidisciplinary psychiatric care. Despite surgical intervention, recurrence of disease is common. In the setting of recurrent infective endocarditis in the setting of intravenous drug use, the ethics of redo cardiac surgery has not been well-established. CASE REPORT: A 34-year-old man with history of intravenous drug use presented on 3 separate occasions with infective endocarditis resulting in 3 tricuspid valve surgeries within fewer than 7 months. He said he had not injected drugs since before his first operation, he was considered to have a strong social support system, and he completed his postoperative antibiotic regimens each time. However, prior to his last operation, the patient had a urine drug screen positive for opiates without recorded prescribed opioids. Pathology reports from the 3 intraoperative specimens showed different pathogens each time. An extensive interprofessional discussion ensued. CONCLUSIONS: Infective endocarditis in the setting of intravenous drug use and its treatments continue to be a point of ethical and medical discussion for all professionals involved with the care of these patients. This case could be used as an example of individualized decision-making, with rigorous ethical and medical discussion factoring into each decision for cardiac surgery. The ongoing treatment for patients with recurrent endocarditis in the setting of intravenous drug use requires more research and guidelines to help medical professionals better care for this patient population. |
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spelling | pubmed-80212702021-04-06 A 34-Year-Old Male Intravenous Drug User with a Third Episode of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Treated with Repeat Valve Surgery Cannon, Jeffrey W. Hayanga, J.W. Awori Drvar, Thomas B. Ellison, Matthew Cook, Christopher Salman, Muhammad Roberts, Harold Badhwar, Vinay Hayanga, Heather K. Am J Case Rep Articles Patient: Male, 34-year-old Final Diagnosis: Infective endocarditis of the tricuspid valve Symptoms: Lethargy • weakness Medication: — Clinical Procedure: Tricuspid valve repair • tricuspid valve replacement Specialty: Anesthesiology • Cardiac Surgery • Infectious Diseases • Psychiatry OBJECTIVE: Unusual clinical course BACKGROUND: Intravenous drug use is an epidemic in the United States. One of the complications of intravenous drug use can be infective endocarditis. The treatment for this disease is a combination of intravenous antibiotics, cardiac surgery consultation, and multidisciplinary psychiatric care. Despite surgical intervention, recurrence of disease is common. In the setting of recurrent infective endocarditis in the setting of intravenous drug use, the ethics of redo cardiac surgery has not been well-established. CASE REPORT: A 34-year-old man with history of intravenous drug use presented on 3 separate occasions with infective endocarditis resulting in 3 tricuspid valve surgeries within fewer than 7 months. He said he had not injected drugs since before his first operation, he was considered to have a strong social support system, and he completed his postoperative antibiotic regimens each time. However, prior to his last operation, the patient had a urine drug screen positive for opiates without recorded prescribed opioids. Pathology reports from the 3 intraoperative specimens showed different pathogens each time. An extensive interprofessional discussion ensued. CONCLUSIONS: Infective endocarditis in the setting of intravenous drug use and its treatments continue to be a point of ethical and medical discussion for all professionals involved with the care of these patients. This case could be used as an example of individualized decision-making, with rigorous ethical and medical discussion factoring into each decision for cardiac surgery. The ongoing treatment for patients with recurrent endocarditis in the setting of intravenous drug use requires more research and guidelines to help medical professionals better care for this patient population. International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2021-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8021270/ /pubmed/33776054 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.927385 Text en © Am J Case Rep, 2021 This work is licensed under Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ) |
spellingShingle | Articles Cannon, Jeffrey W. Hayanga, J.W. Awori Drvar, Thomas B. Ellison, Matthew Cook, Christopher Salman, Muhammad Roberts, Harold Badhwar, Vinay Hayanga, Heather K. A 34-Year-Old Male Intravenous Drug User with a Third Episode of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Treated with Repeat Valve Surgery |
title | A 34-Year-Old Male Intravenous Drug User with a Third Episode of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Treated with Repeat Valve Surgery |
title_full | A 34-Year-Old Male Intravenous Drug User with a Third Episode of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Treated with Repeat Valve Surgery |
title_fullStr | A 34-Year-Old Male Intravenous Drug User with a Third Episode of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Treated with Repeat Valve Surgery |
title_full_unstemmed | A 34-Year-Old Male Intravenous Drug User with a Third Episode of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Treated with Repeat Valve Surgery |
title_short | A 34-Year-Old Male Intravenous Drug User with a Third Episode of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Treated with Repeat Valve Surgery |
title_sort | 34-year-old male intravenous drug user with a third episode of tricuspid valve endocarditis treated with repeat valve surgery |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8021270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33776054 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.927385 |
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