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Patient characteristics, microbiology, and mortality of infective endocarditis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation.

Jarl Emanuel StrangeLauge ØstergaardLars KøberHenning BundgaardKasper IversenMarianne VoldstedlundGunnar Hilmar GislasonJonas Bjerring OlesenEmil Loldrup Fosbøl
Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2023)
Patients with IE after TAVI are older and frailer, enterococci and streptococci are often the aetiologic agents, and rarely blood culture negative compared with other IE patients. Future studies regarding antibiotic prophylaxis strategies covering enterococci should be considered in this setting.
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