Contemporary risk models for infective endocarditis surgery: a narrative review.

ABSTRACT: Infective endocarditis is a complex heterogeneous condition involving the infection of the endocardium and heart valves, leading to severe complications, including death. Surgery is often indicated in patients with infective endocarditis but is associated with elevated risk compared with other forms of cardiac surgery. Risk models play an important role in many cardiac surgeries as they can help inform clinicians and patients regarding procedural risk, decision-making to proceed or not, and influence perioperative management; however, they remain under-utilized in the infective endocarditis settings. Another crucial role of such risk models is to assess predicted versus found mortality, thereby allowing an assessment of institutional performance in infective endocarditis surgery. Tr

SUBMITTER: Agrawal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10469256 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature