Surgical Excision of the Vegetation as Treatment of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis

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Abstract

The usual surgical treatment of tricuspid endocarditis is valve replacement or valve excision alone without valve replacement. ‘Vegetectomy’, i.e. local excision of the vegetation and leaflet repair, has been previously described and can be applied to cases with well-circumscribed vegetations and little or no valve damage. A case of tricuspid valve endocarditis successfully managed by surgical excision of the vegetation is reported.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): CRD

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Cardiology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0008-6312

Title: Cardiology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0008-6312

ISSN (Electronic): 1421-9751

Publication date Subscription-year: 1988

Publication date (Print): 1988

Publication date (Electronic): 11 November 2008

Volume: 75

Issue: 4

Pages: 287-288

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Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Intensive Care, São Francisco Hospital, Ribeirão Prêto, São Paulo, Brazil

Article

Publisher ID: 174386 Other ID: Cardiology 1988;75:287–288

DOI: 10.1159/000174386

PubMed ID: 3167919

SO-VID: 0f556db0-cd9f-4adb-9421-a63e56c36dc7

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History

Date received : 06 October 1987

Date accepted : 11 February 1988

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Pages: 2

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