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Case Reports
. 1994;20(2):142-4.
doi: 10.1007/BF01707670.

Swan-Ganz catheter-related pulmonary valve infective endocarditis: a case report

G Bernardin  1 , D Milhaud, P M Roger, G Pouliquen, P Corcelle, M Mattei
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Case Reports

Swan-Ganz catheter-related pulmonary valve infective endocarditis: a case report

G Bernardin et al. Intensive Care Med. 1994.

Abstract

We report the case of a 29-year-old man with decompensated alcoholic cardiomyopathy who developed a Staphylococcal pulmonic valve infective endocarditis during hemodynamic monitoring, as a consequence of catheter-related bacteremia. As experimentally demonstrated, the damaging role of the pulmonary artery catheter on the endocardial surface plays a major role in the pathogenesis of related right-sided infective endocarditis. Occurrence of bacteremia in a catheterized patient should be considered as a high risk situation, and righ-heart infective endocarditis must be suspected whenever patient presents fever or bacteremia without obvious site of infection. Doppler echocardiography is the reference diagnosis procedure.

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