Factors influencing the results of double-valve surgery in patients with fulminant endocarditis: The importance of valve selection

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 386-391

  Siniawski, Henryk ^a   Grauhan, Onnen ^a   Hofmann, Michael ^a   Pasic, Miralem ^a   Weng, Yuguo ^a   Yankah, Charles ^a   Lehmkuhl, Hans ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FISTULA; GERMANY; HEART ABSCESS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REINFECTION; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEPTIC SHOCK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10944222272     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20041075     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Abolhoda A, Yu S, Oyarzun JR, et al. 1996. No-React detoxification process: a superior anticalcification method for bioprostheses. Ann Thorac Surg 62:1724-30.
2. Arnett EN, Roberts WC. 1976. Valve ring abscess in active infective endocarditis. Circulation 54:140-5.
3. Baumgartner FJ, Omari BO, Robertson JM, Nelson JR, Pandya A, Miliken JC. 2000. Annular abscess in surgical endocarditis: anatomic, clinical and operative features. Ann Thorac Surg 70:442-7.
4. Blumberg EA, Karalis DA, Chandrasekaran K, et al. 1995. Endocarditis associated paravalvular abscess: do clinical parameters predict presence of abscess? Chest 107:898-903.
5. Carrel TP, Berdat P, Engleberger L, et al. 2003. Aortic root replacement with a new stentless aortic valve xenograft conduit: preliminary hemodynamic and clinical results. J Heart Valve Dis 12:752-7.
6. Danchin N, Cherrier F. 1999. Comparison of long-term outcome in patients with or without aortic ring abscess treated surgically for aortic valve infective endocarditis. Heart 81:177-81.
7. David TE, Feindel CM, Armstrong S, Sun Z. 1996. Long-term results of operation for paravalvular abscess. Ann Thorac Surg 62:48-53.
8. Dearani JA, Orszulak TA, Schaff HV, Daly RC, Anderson BJ, Danielson GK. 1997. Results of allograft aortic valve replacement for complex endocarditis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 113:287-91.
9. Delay D, Pellerin M, Carrier M, et al. 2000. Immediate and long-term results of valve replacement for native and prosthetic valve endocarditis. Ann Thorac Surg 70:1219-23.
10. Ergin MA, Raissi S, Follis F, Lansman SL, Griepp RB. 1989. Annular destruction in acute bacterial endocarditis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 97:755-63.
11. Hetzer R, Deyerling W, Borst HG. 1984. Herzklappenchirurgie bei aktiver infektiöser Endokarditis. In: Infektiöser Endokarditis. Klinik, Diagnostik und Therapie. Darmstadt, Germany: Steinkopff-Verlag. p 148-76.
12. Kirklin JK, Kirklin JW, Pacifico AD. 1988. Aortic valve endocarditis with aortic root abscess cavity: surgical treatment with aortic valve homograft. Ann Thorac Surg 45;674-7.
13. Knosalla C, Weng Y, Yankah AC, et al. 2000. Surgical treatment of active infective aortic valve endocarditis with associated periannular abscess: 13 year results. Eur Heart J 21:490-7.
14. Maisch B. 1989. Klinik der infektiösen Endokarditis. Internist (Berl) 30:483-91.
15. Netzer RO, Zollinger E, Seiler C, Cerny A. 2000. Infective endocarditis: clinical spectrum, presentation and outcome. An analysis of 212 cases 1980-1995. Heart 84:25-30.
16. Sheldon WH, Golden A. 1951. Abscesses of the valve rings of the heart: a frequent but not well recognized complication of acute bacterial endocarditis. Circulation 4:1-12.
17. Siniawski H, Lehmkuhl H, Weng Y, et al. 2003. Stentless aortic valves as an alternative to homografts for valve replacement in active infective endocarditis complicated by ring abscess. Ann Thorac Surg 75:803-8.