Open AccessEarly cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis with acute extensive cerebral infarction
Author(s) -
Masashi Toyama,
Masato Nakayama,
Kenji Fukaya,
Ryo Yamamoto
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery/indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 0973-7723
pISSN - 0970-9134
DOI - 10.1007/s12055-020-00945-w
Subject(s) - medicine , embolectomy , infective endocarditis , cardiac surgery , embolus , cardiothoracic surgery , vascular surgery , endocarditis , cerebral infarction , surgery , cardiology , intracranial embolism , embolism , ischemia , pulmonary embolism
Early cardiac surgery was successfully performed on a patient with infective endocarditis and extensive cerebral infarction due to septic embolus, following mechanical embolectomy for proximal middle cerebral artery occlusion. Mechanical embolectomy may be useful for the success of early cardiac surgery in these patients.