Patients with IE who need urgent surgery have a poor clinical course. Heart failure, the main cause of urgent surgery, was not associated with higher mortality. However, persistent infection and renal failure were factors associated with higher post-surgical mortality.

Mortality and adverse postoperative outcome increase in anemic octogenarians undergoing cardiac surgery. Although mortality is directly related to immediate postoperative anemia, adverse outcomes mainly depend on associated co-morbidities.

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