Impact of Aortic Root Abscess on Surgical Outcomes of Infective Endocarditis.

ABSTRACT: Locally destructive infective endocarditis (IE) of the aortic valve complicated by abscess formation in the aortic root may seriously affect patients' outcomes. Surgical repair of such conditions is often challenging. This is a single-center observational analysis of consecutive patients treated surgically for IE between 2009 and 2019. We divided the cohort into two groups considering the presence of an aortic root abscess and compared the characteristics and postoperative outcomes of patients accordingly. Moreover, we examined three different procedures performed in abscess patients regarding operative data and postoperative results: an isolated surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR), AVR with patch reconstruction of the aortic root (AVR + RR) or the Bentall procedure. The whole cohort c

SUBMITTER: Elderia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10820780 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature