A Rare Case of Infective Mediastinitis after Melody Valve Implantation  

作　　者：Veronica Lorenz Karlien Carbonez Geoffroy de Beco Alain Poncelet 

机构地区：[1]Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery,Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc,Brussels,Belgium [2]Department of Pediatric Cardiology,Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc,Brussels,Belgium

出　　处：《Congenital Heart Disease》2022年第2期187-192,共6页先天性心脏病（英文）

摘　　要：Pulmonary valve implant is frequently necessary in children and adults with congenital heart disease.Infective endocarditis represents a rare but life-threatening complication after transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation.There are various treatments for native or prosthetic valve endocarditis.Surgical intervention,combined with intravenous antibiotic treatment,is of paramount importance,in case of concomitant mediastinal infection,in order to ensure the radical debridement of all infected tissue,avoiding any recurrent endocarditis.In this report,we describe a rare case of mediastinitis,associated with an infected endocarditis,occurring 8 months after Melody(Medtronic,Minneapolis,USA)valve implant,successfully treated with the implantation of a homograft to reconstruct the right ventricular outflow tract.

关 键 词：Transcatheter valve prosthesis infective endocarditis cardiac surgery congenital heart disease HOMOGRAFT 

分 类 号：R654.2[医药卫生—外科学]