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Heart transplantation for Q fever endocarditis
C Blanche1, D Freimark, M Valenza
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|December 1, 1994
Abstract:
A 30-year-old man underwent aortic and mitral valve replacement for the treatment of Q fever endocarditis. Postoperatively, paravalvular leak of the mitral prosthesis, progressive deterioration in cardiac function, and intractable heart failure developed. As a result, the patient underwent orthotopic heart transplantation 15 months after his initial valve operation. The patient is clinically well 14 months after transplantation.