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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 95, 857-861, Copyright © 1988 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Vegetectomy: an alternative surgical treatment for infective endocarditis of the atrioventricular valves in drug addicts

CF Hughes and N Noble
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, NSW, Australia.

The case of a patient in whom two separate episodes of infective endocarditis were treated by excision of the infected vegetation ("vegetectomy") is reported. In carefully selected patients, early conservative operation may preserve the native valve and avoid the hazards of anticoagulative medication and prosthetic endocarditis in habitual drug abusers.

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