Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pulmonary valve endocarditis

[...] she was taken urgently to the operating room. The most common organism found in PV-IE is Staphylococcus aureus.1 However, few reports of MRSA pulmonary valve endocarditis can be found.2 Reports of patients developing endocarditis in the postpartum period, as our patient did, can be found, but...

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Published in:The American surgeon 2009-12, Vol.75 (12), p.1265-1266
Main Authors: Bolton, William D, Fox, Ervin R, Winscott, John G, Aru, Giorgio M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Emergency medical care
Endocarditis, Bacterial - complications
Endocarditis, Bacterial - diagnosis
Endocarditis, Bacterial - surgery
Female
Heart Valve Prosthesis
Humans
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Nursing
Puerperal Infection - microbiology
Puerperal Infection - surgery
Pulmonary arteries
Pulmonary Valve - diagnostic imaging
Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency - complications
Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency - surgery
Staphylococcal Infections - complications
Staphylococcal Infections - surgery
Staphylococcus aureus
Staphylococcus infections
Young Adult
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Summary:[...] she was taken urgently to the operating room. The most common organism found in PV-IE is Staphylococcus aureus.1 However, few reports of MRSA pulmonary valve endocarditis can be found.2 Reports of patients developing endocarditis in the postpartum period, as our patient did, can be found, but these cases had different species of bacteria or involved valves other than the pulmonary valve.3 Because pulmonary valve endocarditis is uncommon, management is not as well defined for PV-IE as it is for endocarditis involving other heart valves.4 Ramadan et al.1 reviewed the literature and found that 33 per cent of patients with PV-IE required surgical therapy.
ISSN:0003-1348
1555-9823
DOI:10.1177/000313480907501228