A Case of Mitral Valve Endocarditis Complicated by Multiple Embolic Phenomena: Leaping from Adult Guidelines to Pediatric Critical Care Decisions.

Tarif A Choudhury, Jonathan N Flyer, Henry M Ushay, George Ofori-Amanfo

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Article in Journal of pediatric intensive care, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Tarif A ChoudhuryDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York, New York, New York, United States.

Jonathan N FlyerDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont, University of Vermont Children's Hospital, Burlington, Vermont, United States.

Henry M UshayDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, New York, United States.

George Ofori-AmanfoDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Kravis Children's Hospital, New York, New York, United States.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · USMorgan Stanley Children's Hospital · USUniversity of Vermont Children’s Hospital · US

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Abstract

Early surgical intervention for children with infective endocarditis (IE) and cerebrovascular sequelae has significant risks, resulting in practice variation amongst pediatric cardiologists, intensivists, and cardiothoracic surgeons. The limited pediatric consensus recommendations make decision making for practitioners challenging. The added risk of multiorgan dysfunction syndrome can make these decisions even more difficult. We present the case of a 14-year-old with IE and resultant multiorgan dysfunction syndrome including cerebrovascular complication, successfully treated by primary valve repair within the 1st week of diagnosis.

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Endocarditismultiorgan dysfunction syndromepediatric cardio-cardiothoracic surgery

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PMID31404392

DOI10.1055/s-0038-1675583

PMCPMC6687455

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