Infective Endocarditis: Predictive Factors for Diagnosis and Mortality in Surgically Treated Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) often is challenging, and mortality is high in such patients. Our goal was to characterize common diagnostic tools to enable a rapid and accurate diagnosis and to correlate these tools with mortality outcomes.

Methods

Because of the possibility of including perioperative diagnostics, only surgically treated patients with suspected left-sided IE were included in this retrospective, monocentric study. A clinical committee confirmed the diagnosis of IE.

Results

201 consecutive patients (age 64 ± 13 years, 74% male) were finally diagnosed with IE, and 14 patients turned out IE-negative. Preoperative tests with the highest sensitivity for IE were positive blood cultures (89.0%) and transesophageal echocardiography (87.5%)

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9788195 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature