RT Book, Section
A1 Pettersson, Gösta B.
A1 Hussain, Syed T.
A2 Cohn, Lawrence H.
A2 Adams, David H.
SR Print(0)
ID 1144164663
T1 Surgical Treatment of Aortic Valve Endocarditis
T2 Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 5e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071844871
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1144164663
RD 2024/04/16
AB The  most  common  heart  valve  affected  by  infective  endocarditis  (IE)  is  the  aortic  valve.  Fortunately,  significant  progress  has  been  made  in  our  understanding  and  management  of  aortic  valve  IE.  Clinical  manifestations  include  fever,  heart  murmur,  splenomegaly,  embolic  events,  and  bacteremia  or  fungemia.  Early  diagnosis  is  extremely  important  because  progression  invariably  leads  to  devastating  complications,  including  acute  heart  failure,  cerebral  embolism,  and  death,  if  the  infection  is  not  treated  with  antibiotics,  surgery,  or  both.  Increasingly,  IE  has  become  a  “surgical  disease,”  particularly  for  aortic  valve  IE,  and  during  the  last  decade,  more  than  half  of  all  patients  have  been  operated  on  during  the  active  phase  of  the  disease  (early  surgery).1