Prosthetic valve endocarditis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Erol Şener; Aslıhan Küçüker; Kemal Erdoğan; Hüseyin Bayram; Abdülkadir Bilgiç; Tahir Durmaz; Mete Hıdıroğlu

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2015.10063

Erol Şener¹, Aslıhan Küçüker¹, Kemal Erdoğan², Hüseyin Bayram¹, Abdülkadir Bilgiç¹, Tahir Durmaz², Mete Hıdıroğlu¹

¹Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
²Departments of Cardiology, Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2015.10063

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is being performed in increasing numbers in recent years, leading to an increase in the variety of complications related to the procedure. In this article, we report a 75-year-old female patient who developed infective endocarditis eight months after TAVI. Timing of surgery and treatment approach may be controversial in patients who underwent TAVI previously since they were already accepted as high risk of cardiac surgery. Therefore, we believe that individual experiences may be beneficial to determine the optimal treatment approach for such complex cases.

Keywords : Bioprosthetic heart valve; infective endocarditis; transcatheter aortic valve implantation

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