Infective Endocarditis: Predictive Factors for Diagnosis and Mortality in Surgically Treated Patients

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-535843
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.53584

Li, Jing ; Ruegamer, Tamara ; Brochhausen, Christoph

; Menhart, Karin

; Hiergeist, Andreas

; Kraemer, Lukas ; Hellwig, Dirk

; Maier, Lars S. ; Schmid, Christof ; Jantsch, Jonathan ; Schach, Christian

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Abstract

Background: Diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) often is challenging, and mortality is high in such patients. Our goal was to characterize common diagnostic tools to enable a rapid and accurate diagnosis and to correlate these tools with mortality outcomes. Methods: Because of the possibility of including perioperative diagnostics, only surgically treated patients with suspected left-sided ...