Surgical outcome of right-sided infective endocarditis (IE): Which patients for which procedure?

Ballazhi, Fatos; Tandler, R.; Harig, Frank; Feyrer, R.; Kondruweit, M.; Seitz, T.; Strecker, Thomas; Weyand, Michael

doi:10.1055/s-0034-1367407

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“…The initial search resulted in 1,266 citations from MED-LINE and EMBASE, and 13 observational studies were retrieved for full text review. One was a conference abstract [12], and was excluded. Therefore, the final number of included articles was 12, enrolling 1,165 patients (median follow-up 3.8 years, interquartile range: 2.1 to…”

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“…A rarely considered third surgical option is tricuspid valvectomy, which has been proposed to completely avoid any foreign material in cases of high recidivism in the intravenous drug use population, intractable infection, or poor compliance with antibiotic therapy [11]. It may be offered as a staged or a palliative procedure; it is poorly tolerated in patients with moderate-severe pulmonary hypertension, and approximately 20% of patients have acute right-sided hemodynamic compromise [11,12].…”

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