Early surgery with aggressive surgical approach to improve 6-month outcomes in patients with active infective endocarditis: contribution of cerebral preoperative magnetic resonance imaging

• Published in: General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery Vol. 67; no. 5; pp. 427 - 435
• Main Authors: Nakamura, Masanori, Uzuka, Takeshi, Sato, Hiroshi, Kondo, Mayo, Sakata, Junichi, Kodama, Fumihiro, Murai, Daisuke, Komatsu, Hiroshi, Makino, Takao, Kohya, Tetsuro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Singapore 01.05.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Abscesses; Aneurysms; Cardiac Surgery; Cardiology; Contraindications; Debridement; Embolisms; Endocarditis; Heart failure; Hemodialysis; Hemorrhage; Infections; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Original Article; Patients; Prostheses; Pulmonary arteries; Substance abuse treatment; Surgery; Surgical Oncology; Thoracic Surgery; New York; United States > US; Infective endocarditis; Cerebral preoperative magnetic resonance imaging; Mitral valve plasty; Early surgery; Periannular complication

Objectives We investigated the hypothesis that early surgery for infective endocarditis (IE) attenuates the rate of death or embolic events and does not increase the rate of relapse or postoperative valvular dysfunction (PVD) at 6 months. Methods 21 consecutive patients who underwent surgical treatm...