Cardiac Surgery Compared With Antibiotics Only in Patients Developing Infective Endocarditis After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Cardiac Surgery Compared With Antibiotics Only in Patients Developing Infective Endocarditis After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Background Infective endocarditis (IE) after transcatheter aortic valve replacement is a devastating complication associated with a high mortality. Our objective was to determine the impact of cardiac surgery (CS) and antibiotics (IE‐CS) compared with medical treatment with antibiotics only (IE‐ABx)...

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Main Authors: Norman Mangner, Sergey Leontyev, Felix J. Woitek, Philipp Kiefer, Stephan Haussig, Christian Binner, Meinhard Mende, Florian Schlotter, Georg Stachel, Robert Höllriegel, Jennifer Hommel, Katrin Binner‐Oussenek, Martin Misfeld, Holger Thiele, Michael A. Borger, David Holzhey, Axel Linke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-09-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
antibiotic
cardiac valvular surgery
infective endocarditis
outcome
transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.118.010027

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