[Successful treatment for prosthetic valve endocarditis with use of strip shaped pericardum].

We presented a case of endocarditis with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis that was successfully treated with linezolid. Endocarditis has been hard to cure completely with either antibiotics or surgery. In particular, it is harder to eradicate disease-causing bacteria when it is staphylococci or streptococci. In this case, an innovative operative technique and a new kind of antibiotics were involved after the failure with some sorts of antibiotics. We put a strip shaped pericardium around a newly implanted artificial ring to prevent its organism from touching it. This technique costs little and may be easy to handle, thus it may become a reliable technique for endocarditis.