James C. Witten
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
9 Papers
James C. Witten is an academic researcher from Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Infective endocarditis. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications.
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Papers
Tricuspid valve endocarditis
TL;DR: Right-sided infective endocarditis (RSIE) and TVIE are strongly associated with intravenous drug use (IVDU), although pacemaker leads, defibrillator leads and vascular access for dialysis are also major risk factors.
Long-term Outcomes of Surgery for Invasive Valvular Endocarditis Involving the Aortomitral Fibrosa.
Jose L. Navia,Haytham Elgharably,Ali H. Hakim,James C. Witten,Michael J. Haupt,Emidio Germano,Penny L. Houghtaling,Faisal G. Bakaeen,Gösta B. Pettersson,Bruce W. Lytle,Eric E. Roselli,A. Marc Gillinov,Lars G. Svensson +12 more
TL;DR: In cases of IE invading the IVF and limited to the anterior mitral valve leaflet, a hemi-Commando procedure that includes mitral valves repair has improved early outcomes.
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Surgical treatment of right-sided infective endocarditis.
James C. Witten,Syed T. Hussain,Nabin K. Shrestha,Steven M. Gordon,Penny L. Houghtaling,Faisal G. Bakaeen,Brian P. Griffin,Eugene H. Blackstone,Gösta B. Pettersson +8 more
TL;DR: Overall outcomes after surgery are variable and affected by patient condition, not predisposing condition, and injection drug use carries a higher risk of reoperation for infective endocarditis.
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Value of surgery for infective endocarditis in dialysis patients
Sajjad Raza,Syed T. Hussain,Jeevanantham Rajeswaran,Asif Ansari,Matteo Trezzi,Amr A. Arafat,James C. Witten,Kirthi Ravichandren,Haris Riaz,Hoda Javadikasgari,Sunil Panwar,Sevag Demirjian,Nabin K. Shrestha,Thomas G. Fraser,Jose L. Navia,Bruce W. Lytle,Eugene H. Blackstone,Gösta B. Pettersson +17 more
TL;DR: Intermediate‐term survival after surgery for IE in hemodialysis patients is substantially worse than that in nonhemodialysis Patients, but only slightly worsethan that in the general he modialysis population and substantially better than thatin hemodIALysis patients with IE treated nonsurgically, supporting continued surgical intervention for IE.
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Isolated mitral valve endocarditis: Patient, disease, and surgical factors that influence outcomes.
Ryan A. Moore,James C. Witten,Ashley M. Lowry,Nabin K. Shrestha,Eugene H. Blackstone,Shinya Unai,Gösta B. Pettersson,Per Wierup +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated patient characteristics, valve pathology, bacteriology, and surgical techniques related to outcome of patients who underwent surgery for isolated native (NVE) or prosthetic (PVE) mitral valve endocarditis.
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