Vegetectomy: an alternative surgical treatment for infective endocarditis of the atrioventricular valves in drug addicts
Hughes, C.F.; Noble, N.
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 95(5): 857-861
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-5223 PMID: 3361933 Document Number: 316934
The case of a patient in whom two separate episodes of infective endocarditis were treated by excision of the infected vegetation ("vegetectomy") is reported. In carefully selected patients, early conservative operation may preserve the native valve and avoid the hazards of anticoagulative medication and prosthetic endocarditis in habitual drug abusers.
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