The Predictive Value of Sepsis Scores for In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Left-Sided Infective Endocarditis.
Bianca Leal de AlmeidaTania Mara Varejao StrabelliMarcio Sommer BittencourtVítor Falcão de OliveiraDanielle Menosi GualandroAlfredo José MansurFlavio TarasouchiLucas PocebonMilena PaixãoFlora GoldembergReinaldo SalomãoRinaldo Focaccia SicilianoPublished in: Tropical medicine and infectious disease (2024)
qSOFA and SOFA scores were associated with increased in-hospital mortality in patients with infective endocarditis. However, as accuracy was relatively lower compared to other sites of bacterial infections, we believe that this score may have lower accuracy when predicting the prognosis of patients with IE, because, in this disease, the patient's death may be more frequently linked to valvular and cardiac dysfunction, as well as embolic events, and less frequently directly associated with sepsis.