Preoperative serum albumin: a promising indicator of early mortality after surgery for infective endocarditis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite novel improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of infective endocarditis (IE), there has been no significant improvement in the survival rate of IE, which indicates that many details still need to be optimized in the preoperative assessment. We sought to evaluate preoperative serum albumin as a biomarker for predicting early mortality after IE surgery.

Methods

Between October 2013 and June 2019, patients with a definite diagnosis of IE were enrolled in this study. Patients' albumin levels at admission were used as the preoperative albumin levels. Restricted cubic spline and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to evaluate the relationship between albumin and early mortality. Receiver operating characteristic curve analyses were perfo

SUBMITTER: Huang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8506743 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature