Open AccessStaphylococcal abscess complicating endocardial aneurysmectomy
Author(s) -
Schneiderman H.,
Bloom K.,
Shima M.,
Ezri M.,
Goldin M.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.4960071115
Subject(s) - medicine , ventriculotomy , complication , surgery , abscess , autopsy , endocarditis , cardiology , ventricular tachycardia , coronary artery disease , ventricle
Subendocardial left ventricular aneurysmectomy relieved previously intractable ventricular tachycardia in a 68‐year‐old man with severe coronary artery disease. Staphylococcal septicemia developed postopera‐tively; an infected venoclysis site may have provided the portal of entry. Autopsy confirmed staphylococcal abscess at the epicardial aspect of the ventriculotomy, constituting the first reported case, to our knowledge, of this complication following endocardial surgery.