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Surgical management of infective endocarditis after heart-lung transplantation
1Department of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.
Abstract:
Bacterial endocarditis after heart-lung transplantation has not been described. We report Staphylococcus aureus bacterial endocarditis in a 12-year-old boy after heart-lung transplantation. He was found to have an apparently free vegetation in his left ventricle, which was surgically removed. After a stormy postoperative period, he successfully recovered and remains well after 6 months.