title: [Influence of surgery on survival in infective endocarditis].
abstract: An impact of surgery for infective endocarditis on survival and heart failure has been analyzed. A total of 131 patients with IE have been observed during 1999-2001. Eighty seven of them were male and 44 female, mean age - 50+/-16 years. Sixty three (48.1%) patients underwent surgery, remaining 68 (51.9%) were treated conservatively. The surgical patients had signs of remarkably worse heart failure (p=0.0001), higher grade aortic (p=0.0001) and mitral (p=0.001) valve regurgitation. Surgery resulted in significant improvement of heart failure (p=0.01). Hospital mortality was 25.2% and did not differ between the groups. Elimination of the influence of complications revealed reduced hospital mortality of all patients by 9.9% and mortality of NYHA III-IV patients by 23.9% (p=0.02) as a result of surgery.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Cardiology, Kaunas University of Medicine Hospital, Eiveniu 2, 3007 Kaunas, Lithuania. aredar@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Reda
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arzanauskiene
authors.forename: Rimantas
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Benetis
authors.forename: Petras
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zabiela
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jonkaitiene
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis