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Heart Block as a Rare Complication of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis: Awareness is the Key

Infective endocarditis (IE) occurs when bacterial or fungal pathogens enter the blood and attach to the endocardium. Right-sided endocarditis is usually associated with intravenous drug use (IVDU), intracardiac devices, and central venous catheters. There is more data published about left-side endoc...

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Autores principales: Alsamman, Mrhaf, Du, Jing Hao, Mubarak, Naser, Blanco, Anamarys, Iyamu, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8933263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35350523
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22269
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author Alsamman, Mrhaf
Du, Jing Hao
Mubarak, Naser
Blanco, Anamarys
Iyamu, Kenneth
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description Infective endocarditis (IE) occurs when bacterial or fungal pathogens enter the blood and attach to the endocardium. Right-sided endocarditis is usually associated with intravenous drug use (IVDU), intracardiac devices, and central venous catheters. There is more data published about left-side endocarditis when compared to right-sided endocarditis. Tricuspid valve infective endocarditis (TVIE) accounts for 5%-10% of IE, and of those cases, roughly 10% are complicated by conduction deficits due to inflammatory edema, myocarditis, and abscess formation. Tricuspid valve (TV) surgical repair carries its own risks, one of which includes the development of conduction abnormalities. Here, we review the current data of TVIE complicated by heart block after tricuspid valve replacement. Also, we present a case of a 21-year-old IVDU female who presented with tricuspid valve endocarditis, subsequently underwent tricuspid valve replacement, and developed a heart block.
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spelling pubmed-89332632022-03-28 Heart Block as a Rare Complication of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis: Awareness is the Key Alsamman, Mrhaf Du, Jing Hao Mubarak, Naser Blanco, Anamarys Iyamu, Kenneth Cureus Cardiology Infective endocarditis (IE) occurs when bacterial or fungal pathogens enter the blood and attach to the endocardium. Right-sided endocarditis is usually associated with intravenous drug use (IVDU), intracardiac devices, and central venous catheters. There is more data published about left-side endocarditis when compared to right-sided endocarditis. Tricuspid valve infective endocarditis (TVIE) accounts for 5%-10% of IE, and of those cases, roughly 10% are complicated by conduction deficits due to inflammatory edema, myocarditis, and abscess formation. Tricuspid valve (TV) surgical repair carries its own risks, one of which includes the development of conduction abnormalities. Here, we review the current data of TVIE complicated by heart block after tricuspid valve replacement. Also, we present a case of a 21-year-old IVDU female who presented with tricuspid valve endocarditis, subsequently underwent tricuspid valve replacement, and developed a heart block. Cureus 2022-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8933263/ /pubmed/35350523 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22269 Text en Copyright © 2022, Alsamman et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Alsamman, Mrhaf
Du, Jing Hao
Mubarak, Naser
Blanco, Anamarys
Iyamu, Kenneth
Heart Block as a Rare Complication of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis: Awareness is the Key
title Heart Block as a Rare Complication of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis: Awareness is the Key
title_full Heart Block as a Rare Complication of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis: Awareness is the Key
title_fullStr Heart Block as a Rare Complication of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis: Awareness is the Key
title_full_unstemmed Heart Block as a Rare Complication of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis: Awareness is the Key
title_short Heart Block as a Rare Complication of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis: Awareness is the Key
title_sort heart block as a rare complication of tricuspid valve endocarditis: awareness is the key
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8933263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35350523
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22269
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