TY - JOUR
TI - Valve replacement for Brucella endocarditis: Two case reports
AU - Koumallos, Nikolaos
AU - Paschalis, Andreas
AU - Antoniades, Charalambos
AU - and Tousoulis, Dimitris
AU - Simpsiris, Panagiotis
AU - Tolios, Ioannis
AU - and Stefanadis, Christodoulos
AU - Leonidas, Dimitrios
JO - International Journal of Cardiology
PY - 2008
VL - 127
TODO - 2
SP - E83-E85
PB - Elsevier Ireland Ltd
SN - 0167-5273
TODO - 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.04.081
TODO - Brucella; endocarditis; aortic valve
TODO - We report two cases of successful treatment of Brucella endocarditis.
Both of them were treated with antibiotics and aortic valve replacement
after Brucellosis was diagnosed. In one of these cases emergency
operation was required. Our observations suggest that a combined
surgical and medical treatment is the best option for the management of
this disease. B. endocarditis should be operated after improvement of
clinical status but emergency cardiac surgery may be required if heart
failure develops. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
ER -