title: [Heart valve replacement in active infectious endocarditis].
abstract: A material of 87 patients who underwent cardiac surgery for active infective endocarditis from 1975 to 1987 is analyzed retrospectively. 91 emergency operations were performed in 19 women and 68 men with a mean age of 48 years. 72 native valves and 19 prosthetic valves were involved. Streptococci (41%) and staphylococci (27%) were the most frequent bacteriological isolates, whereas 19% of the cultures remained negative. Heart failure (52%), embolism (21%), uncontrolled infection (11%), prosthetic valve endocarditis (10%), atrioventricular block (4%) and ventricular septal defect (2%) were the indications for surgery an average of 22 days after diagnosis. 17 patients (19%) died, 9 during hospitalization from heart failure or septicemia and 8 in the later course. 16 patients required reoperation for valvular incompetence (5), paravalvular leak (4) or prosthesis infection (7). Five relapses (5.5%) and two reinfections (2.5%) were treated surgically while two reinfections responded to medical therapy alone. Postoperatively, 34 patients (39%) suffered severe complications such as neurological deficits, prosthetic valve endocarditis or anticoagulant haemorrhage. After a mean observation period of 52 months (range 1-147 months) 64 (91%) of the surviving patients were in NYHA classes I + II and 6 (9%) in NYHA classes III + IV.
authors: Medizinische Klinik, Kantonsspital Luzern.
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Meier
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Turina
authors: P G
authors: PG
authors: Frick
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Nager
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D012008:Recurrence; D012086:Reoperation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections; D013290:Streptococcal Infections
vernacular_title: Herzklappenersatz bei florider infektiöser Endokarditis.