Impact of mandatory preoperative dental screening on post-procedural risk of infective endocarditis in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a nationwide retrospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Guidelines recommend preoperative dental screening (PDS) prior to cardiac valve surgery, to reduce the incidence of prosthetic valve infective endocarditis (IE). However, limited data support these recommendations, particular in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). We aimed to investigate the effect of mandatory PDS on risk of IE in patients undergoing TAVI.

Methods

In this observational study, a total of 1133 patients undergoing TAVI in Western-Denmark from 2020 to 2022 were included. Patients were categorized based on two implemented PDS practices: mandatory PDS (MPDS group), and no referral for PDS (NPDS group). Outcome data were retrieved from Danish registries and confirmed using medical records. The primary outcome was incidenc

SUBMITTER: Krasniqi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10769890 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature