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 FosbølPublished 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.
Keyphrases
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- aortic stenosis
- aortic valve
- ejection fraction
- aortic valve replacement
- end stage renal disease
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- physical activity
- heart failure
- case report
- risk factors
- coronary artery disease
- current status
- left ventricular
- middle aged
- community dwelling