Apicoaortic Valve–Containing Conduit in a Patient With Relapsing Prosthetic Endocarditis

A 58-year-old man with a history of 2 previous aortic valve replacements, one of which was a single vein graft to the right coronary artery, was referred to our hospital for repair of relapsing prosthetic endocarditis with annular abscess (Figure 1 and Data Supplement Movie I). Figure 1. Transesophageal echocardiography reveals a giant circular paravalvular leakage and an abscess formation around the prosthetic aortic valve. The annulus …