Successful surgical treatment of aggressive right-sided infective endocarditis in a chronic hemodialysis patient

Emre Gürel; Zeki Yüksel Günaydın; Melih Ürkmez; Tuncay Kırış

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.10299

Emre Gürel¹, Zeki Yüksel Günaydın², Melih Ürkmez³, Diyar Köprülü, Tuncay Kırış¹

Ordu State Hospital, Ordu, Turkey
¹Departments of Cardiology, Ordu State Hospital, Ordu, Turkey
²Department of Cardiology, Medical Faculty of Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey
³Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ordu State Hospital, Ordu, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.10299

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Right-sided infective endocarditis is rare. In this article, we presented successful urgent surgical management of aggressive tricuspid valve infective endocarditis with recurrent pulmonary embolism in a chronic hemodialysis patient.

Keywords : Endocarditis; renal failure; tricuspid valve

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