12 October 2024
: Case report
Aortic Homografts in Surgical Management of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: A Case Series from Greece
Management of emergency care, Rare disease, Educational Purpose (only if useful for a systematic review or synthesis)
Vlasios Karageorgos1ABCDEF, Antigoni Koliopoulou2ABDEF, Anna Smyrli1ABE, Georgios Gkantinas1ABE, Panagiotis Ftikos1ABE, Nektarios E. Kogerakis2ABE, Theofani Antoniou1ABDEG, Themistoklis Chamogeorgakis2ABCDEFG*DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.945030
Am J Case Rep 2024; 25:e945030
Table 1. Patient Characteristics. The table describes patient characteristics, comorbidities, length of stay, type of operation, antibiotic therapy duration and microorganism identified and inculpated for endocarditis.
Patient | Age | Length of stay (days) | BMI | Sex | Comorbidities | Initial operation | Final operation | Interval between interventions (in months) | Antibiotic therapy duration pre-op (days) | Parenteral antibiotic therapy duration (days) | Identified microorganism |
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1 | 81 | 21 | 26.3 | Male | Hyperlipidemia, hypertension | AVR with Medtronic Avalus Bio 19 mm | Aortic root replacement with Homograft | 8 | 15 | 30 | |
2 | 77 | 15 | 20.1 | Male | DM II, hypertension | AVR with St. Jude Trifecta 19 mm | Aortic root replacement with Homograft | 19 | 20 | 34 | |
3 | 73 | 29 | 25.9 | Male | DM II, hypertension | AVR with St. Jude Trifecta 19 mm & MVR with St. Jude Epic Bio 27 mm | Aortic root replacement with Homograft | 5 | 17 | 30 | (MRSE) |
4 | 78 | 31 | 20.1 | Male | Hypertension | Bentall – Valved Graft | Aortic root replacement with Homograft | 174 | 22 | 36 | |
5 | 55 | 44 | 26.2 | Male | DM II, hypertension | Bentall – Valved Graft | Aortic root replacement with Homograft + CABG SVG to RCA + Neo-aorta creation using bovine pericardium | 99 | 14 | 30 | & |
6 | 51 | 66 | 34 | Female | DM II, hypertension | AVR with St. Jude Mechanical 19 mm & MVR St. Jude Mechanical 29 mm & TV-plasty ring contour 3D 36 mm | Aortic Root replacement with Homograft + aorto-mitral skeleton reconstruction with bovine pericardium and MVR | 27 | 14 | 30 | Not identified |
7 | 44 | 35 | 27.1 | Male | Hypertension | AVR with St. Jude Mechanical 23 mm & Ascending aortic graft | Aortic root replacement with Homograft | 16 | 11 | 30 | Not identified |
8 | 65 | 33 | 23.4 | Male | Hypertension | AVR with St. Jude Mechanical 23 mm & CABG LIMA->LAD, SVG->OM1 | Aortic root replacement with Homograft + CABG SVG to RCA | 50 | 14 | 44 |