Mitral Valve Bacterial Endocarditis: What Should Patients Know?

To help patients learn more about mitral valve bacterial endocarditis, we interviewed Dr. Duc Thinh Pham, a leading cardiac surgeon at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

Key questions answered by Dr. Pham in this video include:

1. Can you discuss the role of the four valves in the heart? What do they do?
2. What happens if the valves do not work properly?
3. What are the common types of heart valve disease?
4. What is bacterial endocarditis? Is it common?
5. How can endocarditis impact the mitral valve, the heart and the human body?
6. Can endocarditis cause any additional cardiac disease and or heart failure?
7. What treatments are available for patients with mitral valve endocarditis? Mitral valve repair? Mitral valve replacement?
8. How do patients do after mitral valve therapy for endocarditis? Life expectancy? Quality of life?
9. What is Dr. Pham's #1 piece of advice for patients with endocarditis?

[jlynnp]

I've been obsessed watching videos on bacterial endocarditis, and this was a good one. Ive been sick since August and it was recently confirmed that I had bacterial endocarditis. On 11/20 I had my pulmonary valve replaced, and my aorta was repaired. The vegetation that was attached to my heart broke off and damaged my spleen, left lung, kidneys and went in to my brain. I was admitted to the hospital for a month and a half and now home and I feel my body has been reset and I feel so much better then I've felt in years

[sheikhwaris]

V great achievement in heart surgery and treatment.

[nas]

Thank you so much for another great and informative video and interview 🙏🏼

[ajaybabu]

Recently my mother suffering with heart valve infection ( which is replaced by heart valve transplantation last year) what is the solution to get out from that infection please help me 😢😭😭

[RN-prnv]

Hi please help my mother is suffering from this She is having vegetation on aortic valve and doctor have suggested us a opertion now after a month treatment of antibiotics named as gentamicin, Vencomycin . Please help what should i do?

[arsal]

Can a mechanical valve be infected too and what are the treatment options for it?

[lenorawright]

My Godmother from a vegtation bacteria 😢😢