NCT04429256

Prosthetic Valve and Graft Endocarditis With Mycobacterium Chimaera

Prosthetic Valve and Graft Endocarditis With Mycobacterium Chimaera: Diagnosis, Course of Disease, and Therapy Recommendations

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 7 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Mycobacterium chimaera infections have occurred in post-cardiac surgery patients in association with contaminated cardiac bypass heater-cooler devices. So far optimal therapeutical concepts are not clear. At the University Hospital Basel Mycobacterium chimaera- infected protheses are replaced to decrease pathogenic burden and to support antibiotic long- term treatment. This study is to analyze the efficacy of this therapeutic approach.

Conditions

• Mycobacterium Chimaera Infections

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	data collection	retrospective analysis of perioperative data collected from patient medical charts and from a telephone enquiry

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-04-10
• Primary completion: 2022-12-31
• Completion: 2022-12-31
• First posted: 2020-06-12
• Last updated: 2023-11-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland