• 作者：Luis Alberto Pallá ; s Beneyto ; ^{luispallasbeneyto@yahoo.es} ; Olga Rodrí ; guez Luis ; Vicente Miguel Bayarri
• 关键词：Endocarditis infecciosa ; Endocarditis bacteriana ; Embolia sé ; ptica ; Complicaciones proté ; sicas ; Ecocardiograma transesofá ; gico
• 刊名：Medicina Cl铆nica
• 出版年：2011
• 期刊代码：pca254_00257753
• 类别：med
• 出版时间：29 January 2011
• 卷：136
• 期：2
• 页码：67-72
• 文件大小：186 K

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a serious disease which can carry a bad prognosis if it is not appropriately treated. Sometimes the clinical evolution is unfavourable despite an optimal medical therapy with antibiotics. Surgery in these cases has an important role to eliminate the source of infection or to perform a valve replacement. The surprising evolution of patients operated in critic circumstances take us to analyze the role of early surgery. As physicians, we need to know these patients鈥?risks and to establish the adequate surgical indications.