The majority of IE cases are presumably secondary to dental pathology, followed by otitis media or sinusitis • Mitral and aortic ... endocarditis. Patients with native or prosthetic valve ...

Endocarditis is the infection and inflammation ... The dub sound is produced by the closing of the aortic and pulmonic valves ...

An aortic annular abscess (aortic root abscess) can occur as a complication of aortic valve endocarditis and is more common on a prosthetic aortic valve. This is diagnosed predominantly on ...

The aortic valve was replaced by a Starr-Edwards prosthesis ... In this study 4 patients with bacterial endocarditis who were allergic to penicillin were treated with cephalosporin antibiotics ...

Although active bacterial endocarditis was probably the major ... the severity of the aortic regurgitation also necessitated aortic-valve replacement. In 7 others aortic regurgitation of mild ...

repairs to the aortic root and valve are required in these conditions. The most common causes of acute aortic dissection include bacterial endocarditis, aortic dissection and blunt trauma-induced ...

Transscatheter aortic valve replacement is a novel way to replace ... valve failure or clotting, and endocarditis.

While most TAA cases with ascending aortic involvement are treated with surgical repair (primarily valve-preserving techniques ... (often caused by bacterial endocarditis), Takayasu's arteritis ...

Surgery to replace an aortic valve is done for aortic valve stenosis and aortic valve regurgitation. During this surgery, the damaged valve is removed and replaced with an artificial valve. The valve ...