Postoperative Inflammation and Fever After Elective Aortic Valve and Aortic Root Replacement: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fever after cardiac surgery is common. More knowledge of postoperative fever could lead to better patient selection for diagnostic workup and empirical antibiotic treatment. We aimed to analyze the postoperative course of inflammation and fever after elective aortic valve and aortic root replacement.

Methods

In a retrospective single-center cohort study, we included 3 groups of patients after elective cardiac surgery: aortic root with aortic valve replacement (Bentall procedure, from 2014 to 2021), valve-sparing root replacement (VSRR, from 2014 to 2021), and isolated surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR, from 2018 to 2021). Exclusion criteria were age <18 years, cardiac surgery other than described, use of deep-hypothermic circulatory arrest, reoperations, and

SUBMITTER: Keijmel SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9887259 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature