Quantification of Multiple Bacteria in Calcified Structural Valvular Heart Disease - Oberbach, Andreas; Schlichting, Nadine; Friedrich, Maik; Lehmann, Stefanie; Kullnick, Yvonne; Pichlmaier, Maximilian; Hagl, Christian; Bagaev, Erik (Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2020)
Keywords: Acute infective endocarditis; Cardiothoracic Surgery; Next-generation sequencing; Structural valvular heart disease; Structural valvular heart disease; CrP; NYHA; NSG; CI; GM; HVT; LVEF; Acute infective endocarditis; sVHD; BSA; IL6; Next-generation sequencing; STS; EuroSCORE; qPCR; aIE; BMI; C-reactive protein; New York Heart Association, functional classification of heart failure (stages I-IV); Society of Thoracic Surgeons adult cardiac surgery risk calculator; European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation, calculated using database (http://www.euroscore.org); heart valve tissue; Interleukin 6; Body mass index; Left ventricular ejection fraction; Body surface area; Next-generation-sequencing; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; geometric mean; confidence interval; Next-generationsequencing