Percutaneous debulking of tricuspid vegetations due to infectious endocarditis in pregnancy: a case report

ABSTRACT: Infective endocarditis is a rare but serious disease with increasing prevalence in women of childbearing age because of the opioid epidemic. Therefore, it is an increasingly frequent pregnancy complication. The gold standard of treatment is intravenous antibiotics with surgery reserved for refractory cases. However, pregnancy complicates decisions about the risk and timing of surgery. AngioVac represents a percutaneous alternative to surgical intervention. Here, we present a case of a 22-year-old G2P1001 woman with a history of intravenous drug use and infective endocarditis who continued to show signs and symptoms of septic pulmonary emboli despite management with intravenous antibiotics. The patient was deemed not to be a surgical candidate while pregnant and had an AngioVac procedure at

SUBMITTER: Boudova S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10196985 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature