Risk Factors for In-Hospital Mortality in Infective Endocarditis.
Ana MarquesInês CruzDaniel CaldeiraAna Rita PereiraAna Catarina GomesAna Luísa BroaIsabel JoãoHélder PereiraPublished in: Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia (2020)
The risk factors for in-hospital mortality were clinical (heart failure, septic shock), evidence of valve obstruction in echocardiography, Staphylococcus aureus etiology or negative blood cultures. Invasive treatment by surgery significantly decreased the mortality risk.
Keyphrases
- septic shock
- heart failure
- staphylococcus aureus
- left ventricular
- minimally invasive
- aortic valve
- mitral valve
- coronary artery bypass
- computed tomography
- pulmonary hypertension
- aortic stenosis
- biofilm formation
- escherichia coli
- combination therapy
- surgical site infection
- pseudomonas aeruginosa
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
- coronary artery disease
- acute coronary syndrome
- percutaneous coronary intervention