Author:
Wilson W R,Danielson G K,Giuliani E R,Washington J A,Jaumin P M,Geraci J E
Abstract
Eleven of 138 patients with infective endocarditis (IE) who underwent cardiac valve replacement for IE during a 12 1/2-year period had active IE. Eight of the 11 (all with aortic IE) had positive blood cultures within 48 hours preoperatively; six of the eight had positive Gram stains and cultures of the excised cardiac tissue. All 11 patients had Class IV cardiac functional disability (New York Heart Association classification) at the time of surgery. Staphylococci (three patients with Staphylococcus aureus and one with S. epidermidis) were the most frequent isolates. Three patients died; two of these three deaths occurred in patients who had a sudden onset preoperatively of severe aortic regurgitation and heart failure. In one patient (S. epidermidis infection) prosthetic valve endocarditis developed. Cardiac valve replacement may be performed successfully in patients with active IE even when blood cultures are positive in the immediate perioperative period. The hemodynamic status of patients with IE should be the determining factor in the timing of cardiac valve replacement, rather than the activity of the infection or the length of preoperative antimicrobial therapy. A radical surgical procedure may be necessary in patients with myocardial or aortic abscesses in whom conventional aortic valve replacement is not possible.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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