Abstract

A case report is devoted to the successful management of a 33-year-old patient with subacute infective endocarditis of the tricuspid valve and pacemaker, as well as chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. There were following therapy stages: 1) pharmacotherapy — antimicrobial agents, treatment of heart failure, pulmonary hypertension; 2) an interventional approach — tricuspid valve replacement with chamber sanitation, pacemaker explantation, endocardial lead removal from the right heart, implantation of a pacemaker with an epicardial lead system and 3) delayed balloon pulmonary angioplasty.

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