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In children and adults with a congenital heart disease, a pulmonary valve implant is frequently necessary. Prosthetic valve endocarditis is a conservatively barely manageable, serious life-threatening condition. We investigated the results of surgical pulmonary valve replacements in patients with IE.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 20 patients with congenital heart disease with the definite diagnosis of IE between March 2013 and July 2020 were included in this single institutional, retrospective review. Infected conduits were 11 Melody, 5 Contegra, 3 homografts and 1 Matrix P Plus. All of the infected prosthetic material was removed from the right ventricular outflow tract up to the pulmonary bifurcation. Pulmonary homografts were implanted after pulmonary root resection as right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery conduits.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>All patients survived and were discharged infection-free. The mean time from the conduit implant to the operation for IE was 4.9\u2009years [95% confidence interval (CI), 3.0\u20136.9]. The median intensive care unit stay was 3.0\u2009days (95% CI, 2.0\u20134.7), and the median hospital time was 25.0\u2009days (95% CI, 19.2\u201342.0). Median follow-up time was 204.5\u2009days (range 30\u2009days to 5\u2009years) without death or recurrent endocarditis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The surgical treatment of IE of percutaneous pulmonary valve prostheses and right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery conduits is a safe and effective therapeutic concept. Early surgical referral of patients with suspicion of IE should be pursued to avoid sequelae such as right ventricular failure, septic emboli, intracardiac expansion and antibiotic resistance.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/ejcts\/ezab086","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,3]],"date-time":"2021-02-03T22:42:52Z","timestamp":1612392172000},"page":"1322-1328","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Surgical therapy of infective endocarditis following interventional or surgical pulmonary valve replacement"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"59","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6358-5048","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gregor","family":"Gierlinger","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Kepler University Hospital, JKU, Linz, 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