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Ann Thorac Surg 1989;48:857-858
© 1989 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Tricuspid valve Candida endocarditis cured by valve-sparing debridement

Minoru Tanaka, MD*,a,b, Toshio Abe, MDa,b, Shuuichi Hosokawa, MDa,b, Yoshito Suenaga, MDa,b, Hiroshi Hikosaka, MDa,b

a Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
b Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagoya Second Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Accepted for publication June 7, 1989.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Tanaka, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-Cho, Showa-Ku, Nagoya 466, Japan.

This report describes the case of a patient in whom Candida albicans tricuspid valve endocarditis was treated by excision of a large vegetation and partial tricuspid valvectomy without prosthetic valve replacement In select patients, valve-sparing debridement may allow a long-term cure and may be the procedure of choice in the treatment of Candida tricuspid valve endocarditis.




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