Factors associated with surgery for active endocarditis in congenital heart disease

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-62

  Murakami, Tomoaki ^a   Niwa, Koichiro ^a   Yoshinaga, Masao ^b   Nakazawa, Makoto ^c  

^a CHIBA CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KAGOSHIMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c Southern Tohoku General Hospital and Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Infective endocarditis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; HEART ABSCESS; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860257801     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2010.11.016     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. B. Hoen, F. Alla, and C. Selton-Suty Changing profile of infective endocarditis: results of a 1-year survey in France JAMA 288 2002 75 81
2. F. Nomura, D.J. Penny, S. Menahem, A. Pawade, and T.R. Karl Surgical intervention for infective endocarditis in infancy and childhood Ann Thorac Surg 60 1995 90 95
3. K. Niwa, M. Nakazawa, S. Tateno, M. Yoshinaga, and M. Terai Infective endocarditis in congenital heart disease: Japanese national collaboration study Heart 91 2005 795 800
4. L.M. Baddour, W.R. Wilson, and A.S. Bayer Infective endocarditis: diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, and management of complications: a statement for healthcare professionals from the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and the Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Stroke, and Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, American Heart Association: endorsed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America Circulation 111 2005 e394 e434
5. P. Ferrieri, M.H. Gewitz, and M.A. Gerber Unique features of infective endocarditis in childhood Circulation 105 2002 2115 2126
6. Becher H., Hanrath P., Bleifeld W., and Bleese N. Correlation of echocardiographic and surgical findings in acute bacterial endocarditis Eur Heart J 5 Suppl C 1984 67 70
7. E.N. Arnett, and W.C. Roberts Prosthetic valve endocarditis: clinicopathologic analysis of 22 necropsy patients with comparison observations in 74 necropsy patients with active infective endocarditis involving natural left-sided cardiac valves Am J Cardiol 38 1976 281 292
8. D.J. Fernicola, and W.C. Roberts Frequency of ring abscess and cuspal infection in active infective endocarditis involving bioprosthetic valves Am J Cardiol 72 1993 314 323
9. J.L. Carpenter Perivalvular extension of infection in patients with infectious endocarditis Rev Infect Dis 13 1991 127 138
10. Sexton D.J., and Spelman D. Current best practices and guidelines. Assessment and management of complications in infective endocarditis Cardiol Clin 21 2003 273 282 vii-viii
11. R.P. Beynon, V.K. Bahl, and B.D. Prendergast Infective endocarditis BMJ 333 2006 334 339
12. K. Eishi, K. Kawazoe, Y. Kuriyama, Y. Kitoh, Y. Kawashima, and Omae T. Surgical management of infective endocarditis associated with cerebral complications. Multi-center retrospective study in Japan. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 110 1995 1745 1755
13. C. Piper, M. Wiemer, H.D. Schulte, and D. Horstkotte Stroke is not a contraindication for urgent valve replacement in acute infective endocarditis J Heart Valve Dis 10 2001 703 711
14. Shewan L.G., and Coats A.J. Ethics in the authorship and publishing of scientific articles Int J Cardiol 144 2010 1 2