Mitral Valve Homograft Used in Partial Heart Autotransplant Approach for Recurrent Endocarditis.
Vamsi Aribindi, Mark Joseph Kearns, Hao Anh Tran et al.
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Case in brief
A patient with multiple recurrences of endocarditis involving both the mitral and aortic valves underwent treatment using a mitral valve homograft. The homograft was obtained from the explanted native heart of a heart transplant recipient and used in a partial heart autotransplant approach. The abstract does not report further clinical outcomes or the patient’s subsequent course.
What made this case unusual
The mitral homograft came from a heart transplant recipient’s explanted native heart and was used in a partial heart autotransplant approach for recurrent endocarditis.
Diagnostic / clinical pearl
In recurrent endocarditis involving both mitral and aortic valves, this report describes an alternative source of mitral homograft tissue: the explanted native heart of a transplant recipient.