[Which patients with infective endocarditis require emergency surgery?]
Half of patients with infectious endocarditis have surgery during the active phase of infective endocarditis (before the end of antibiotic therapy). The American Heart Association and the European Society of Cardiology, independently from each other, have published guidelines in September 2015. As regards surgical indications, these guidelines are similar. The surgical indication must be a common decision of a multidisciplinary team of experts in cardiology, cardiac surgery, imaging and infectious diseases. The main indications are heart failure, non-infectious process control and prevention of embolisms.
Hospices civils de Lyon, université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, EA 7425 : qualité sécurité performance en santé, 69000 Lyon, France. Electronic address: francois.delahaye@chu-lyon.fr.
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D004638:Emergency Treatment; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection