… The purposes of this review are to restate the generally acknowledged indications for
cardiac surgical intervention in patients with active infective endocarditis and to construct a …

… category no surgery; P = 0.005]. One hundred and three (52%) patients underwent cardiac
surgery after a median time of 6 (16) days. Independent predictors of surgical intervention on …

… CARDIAC SURGERY Heart failure If heart failure is present, the mortality rate of native valve
infective endocarditis … The first indication for cardiac surgery in infective endocarditis is heart …

… The timing of cardiac surgery after stroke in infective endocarditis (IE) remains controversial.
We examined the relationship between the timing of surgery after stroke and the incidence …

… of neurological complications in patients with infective endocarditis, the risk factors for
their development, their influence on the clinical outcome, and the impact of cardiac surgery. …

… responsible for IE should be eliminated before cardiac surgical intervention. … Furthermore,
concerns that cardiac surgeons may be exposed to significant risk of acquiring infection with …

… safety of early cardiac surgery. In contrast, perhaps the largest study to evaluate timing of
surgery in the setting of embolic infarction 45 strongly favored delayed surgery, with neurologic …

… False-positive findings for PET/CT imaging have been reported after cardiac surgery due
to post-pericardiotomy syndrome and prosthetic valve thrombosis; they have also been …

… cardiac surgery in patients with infective endocarditis (IE) include refractory heart failure (HF),
disseminating infection … of surgery are excision of infected tissue, restoring cardiac integrity …

… patients requires a multidisciplinary management team composed of cardiologist, infectious
disease specialist, microbiologist, and cardiothoracic surgeon. Although antimicrobials are …