Percutaneous Aspiration of Vegetation in Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis: A Possible Novel Treatment Option

A 35-year-old man with a history of active intravenous drug use presented with infective endocarditis and tricuspid valve vegetations. He was a poor candidate for open heart surgery as a result of persistent bacteremia and comorbidities, and he underwent successful aspiration therapy with a mechanic...

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Autores principales: Almanfi, Abdelkader, Nabous, Ibrahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9537088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36213887
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.03.032
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description A 35-year-old man with a history of active intravenous drug use presented with infective endocarditis and tricuspid valve vegetations. He was a poor candidate for open heart surgery as a result of persistent bacteremia and comorbidities, and he underwent successful aspiration therapy with a mechanical thrombectomy device for the vegetation. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)
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spelling pubmed-95370882022-10-08 Percutaneous Aspiration of Vegetation in Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis: A Possible Novel Treatment Option Almanfi, Abdelkader Nabous, Ibrahim JACC Case Rep Case Report A 35-year-old man with a history of active intravenous drug use presented with infective endocarditis and tricuspid valve vegetations. He was a poor candidate for open heart surgery as a result of persistent bacteremia and comorbidities, and he underwent successful aspiration therapy with a mechanical thrombectomy device for the vegetation. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.) Elsevier 2022-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9537088/ /pubmed/36213887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.03.032 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Percutaneous Aspiration of Vegetation in Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis: A Possible Novel Treatment Option
title Percutaneous Aspiration of Vegetation in Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis: A Possible Novel Treatment Option
title_full Percutaneous Aspiration of Vegetation in Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis: A Possible Novel Treatment Option
title_fullStr Percutaneous Aspiration of Vegetation in Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis: A Possible Novel Treatment Option
title_full_unstemmed Percutaneous Aspiration of Vegetation in Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis: A Possible Novel Treatment Option
title_short Percutaneous Aspiration of Vegetation in Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis: A Possible Novel Treatment Option
title_sort percutaneous aspiration of vegetation in tricuspid valve infective endocarditis: a possible novel treatment option
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9537088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36213887
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.03.032
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