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Pulmonic valve endocarditis after orthotopic liver transplantation
1Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
Liver Transplantation and Surgery : Official Publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society
|September 9, 1999
Abstract:
Infective endocarditis is a rare complication affecting solid-organ transplant recipients. Isolated pulmonic valve endocarditis is also rare. A case of persistent bacteremia secondary to an isolated pulmonic valve vegetation occurred in a woman 10 days after liver transplantation. A pulmonary vegetectomy was performed as an alternative to valve replacement in addition to long-term antibiotic therapy.