The Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
Clin Infect Dis. 2021 May 18;72(10):1687-1692. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab036.
Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) is a major infectious disease problem due to the increasing numbers of patients undergoing valve replacement surgery. PVE can present diagnostic difficulties echocardiographically, especially when complicating transvascular placement techniques. Moreover, outbreaks of unusual PVE pathogens, such as Mycobacterium chimaera, have presented major diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas.
人工瓣膜心内膜炎（PVE）是一个重大的感染性疾病问题，这是由于接受瓣膜置换手术的患者数量不断增加。PVE 在经超声心动图诊断时具有一定难度，尤其是当并发经血管放置技术时。此外，一些不常见的 PVE 病原体（如奇美拉分枝杆菌）的爆发，也带来了重大的诊断和治疗困境。
