Cardiac Surgery for Active Infective Endocarditis of Mitral Valve after Recent COVID-19 Infection

Masato Tochii1*, Hirotaka Watanuki1, Kayo Sugiyama1, Yasuhiro Futamura1, Hiroshi Ishikawa2 and Katsuhiko Matsuyama1

1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Aichi Medical University, Japan
2Department of Cardiac Surgery, Kasugai Municipal Hospital, Japan

^*Correspondance to: Masato Tochii 

 PDF  Full Text DOI: 10.25107/2474-1647.3405

Abstract

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in a global public health crisis. Only urgent and emergent operations have been performed globally to prevent widespread transmission of COVID-19. It was difficult for clinicians to decide whether to operate on patients who had a history of recent COVID-19 infection and pneumonia, even in urgent cases. We report a case of successful urgent surgical management of active infective endocarditis for a patient who had been treated for pneumonia due to COVID-19 three weeks before cardiac surgery.

Keywords

COVID-19; Infective endocarditis; Cardiac surgery

Cite the article

Tochii M, Watanuki H, Sugiyama K, Futamura Y, Ishikawa H, Matsuyama K. Cardiac Surgery for Active Infective Endocarditis of Mitral Valve after Recent COVID-19 Infection. Clin Surg. 2022; 7: 3405.