SANTINI , Francesco

Proteus mirabilis prosthetic valve endocarditis is a rare and life-threatening condition not yet reported on tricuspid bioprostheses. We report a cas of a 43-year old woman, a heroin-user, presented with a giant vegetation extended the tricuspid valve prosthesis to the pulmonary artery.

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Diagnostic intricacies and fortuitous treatment approaches for carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. Reply, letter to editor.

Purpose: Open chest management with delayed sternal closure (DSC) is a valuable strategy in the management of patients with postcardiotomy hemodynamic instability or severe coagulopathy. The conventional extemporized material available for off-label sternal stenting however may limit its efficacy. We evaluated outcomes of patients with...

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An 18-year-old male, involved in a car accident, underwent a non-gated contrast enhanced CT with apparently no evidence of significant abnormalities of the thoracic aorta. The later onset of aortic valve regurgitation prompted a prospectively ECG-triggered high-pitch spiral acquisition using a dual-source CT system which showed a tear with a...

Background: In the transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) years, very elderly patients with aortic stenosis (AS) are referred to surgery with reluctance despite excellent hospital outcomes. A poorly assessed outcome of discharged survivors might further overlook the actual efficacy of the surgical strategy in this cohort. We thus...