Infective Endocarditis Risk After Invasive Dental Procedures.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To quantify the risk of infective endocarditis (IE) following different invasive dental procedures in patients with cardiac risk factors that place them at low-risk, moderate-risk, or high-risk of developing IE.

Patients and methods

The linked IBM MarketScan administrative databases were used to integrate deidentified patient-level health data for all enrollees over 18 years of age with employer-provided commercial/Medicare-supplemental medical and dental coverage, or Medicaid benefits, with more than 16 months of data from May 1, 2007, to August 31, 2015.

Results

In the resulting 9.6 million patient cohort, IE incidence in the 4-months following 53.6 million invasive dental procedures was quantified. In high-risk individuals (e.g. previous IE, prosthetic/re

SUBMITTER: Thornhill MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12650783 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature