Potential Biases Most studies of IE are affected by selection, survival, and referral bias. They
make it difficult to study the natural history of IE in the general population, because treated …

Surgery is an effective therapy in the treatment of left-sided infective endocarditis (IE) in
patients for whom antibiotic treatment alone is unlikely to be curative or may be associated …

Objective To develop and validate a calculator to predict the risk of in-hospital mortality in
patients with active infective endocarditis (IE) undergoing cardiac surgery. Methods …

Background Aspecific scoring systems are used to predict the risk of death postsurgery in
patients with infective endocarditis (IE). The purpose of the present study was both to …

Background: Cardiac computed tomography (CT) is emerging as an adjunctive modality to
echocardiography in the evaluation of infective endocarditis (IE) and surgical planning. CT …

OBJECTIVES We assessed the prognostic utility of risk scores in surgery for infective
endocarditis (IE) to evaluate their reliability in mortality risk prediction. METHODS An …

Purpose There is a lack of consensus about which endocarditis-specific preoperative
characteristics have an actual impact over postoperative mortality. Our objective was the …

Background There are several prognostic models to estimate the risk of mortality after
surgery for active infective endocarditis (IE). However, these models incorporate different …

Background Although not formalized into current risk assessment models, frailty has been
associated with negative postoperative outcomes in many specialties. Using administrative …

Purpose Risk stratification is of utmost importance for patients with infective endocarditis (IE)
who need surgery. However, for these critically ill patients, aspecific scoring systems are …