What is the optimal timing for surgery in infective endocarditis with cerebrovascular complications?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 72-80

  Rossi, Michele ^a   Gallo, Alina ^a   Joseph De Silva, Ravi ^a   Sayeed, Rana ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Cerebrovascular complication; Infective endocarditis; Stroke cardiac surgery; Timing

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEVER; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RUPTURED MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; SURGICAL RISK; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNCONTROLLED INFECTION; ENDOCARDITIS; REVIEW; TIME;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84859838115     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivr010     Document Type: Article

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