Aortic Pseudoaneurysm After Valve-in-Valve TAVR: A Unique Presentation of Infective Endocarditis

Akiva Rosenzveig; Venu Menon; Shinya Unai; Grant W Reed

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102692

Aortic Pseudoaneurysm After Valve-in-Valve TAVR: A Unique Presentation of Infective Endocarditis

JACC Case Rep. 2024 Nov 6;29(21):102692. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102692.

Authors

Akiva Rosenzveig¹, Venu Menon¹, Shinya Unai², Grant W Reed¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
² Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Abstract

A 72-year-old man with a history of aortic valve replacement (AVR), mitral valve (MV) repair, and recent valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) presented with Staphylococcus capitis bacteremia. Computed tomography (CT) and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (¹⁸F-FDG PET) imaging noted a pseudoaneurysm, and he successfully underwent TAVR explant with aortic root and valve replacement.

Keywords: infective endocarditis; multimodality imaging; transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

Publication types

Case Reports