Surgical treatment of left-sided infective endocarditis with symptomatic neurological complications before surgery in China.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

We aimed to investigate surgical treatment of left-sided infective endocarditis with symptomatic neurological complications before surgery.

Methods

This was a retrospective study of patients with left-sided infective endocarditis and symptomatic neurological complications before surgery undergoing cardiac surgery between January 2006 and November 2022 at our hospital.

Results

Eight hundred thirty-two patients were divided into group with symptomatic neurological complications before surgery (n = 112) and without symptomatic neurological complications before surgery (n = 720). There were 48 operative deaths (5.4%). Univariate and multivariate analyses showed that symptomatic neurological complications before surgery is statistically significa

SUBMITTER: Huang JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10510404 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature