Optimal timing of surgery for patients with active infective endocarditis

T Kitai, A Masumoto, T Okada, T Koyama… - Cardiology …, 2021 - cardiology.theclinics.com
… not only on location, size, and mobility of vegetation, but also on … management of infective
endocarditis of the European Society of … Embolization of valvular vegetation can cause acute …

About vegetation size and its clinical implications

I Vilacosta - Cardiology Journal, 2023 - journals.viamedica.pl
… To further correlate embolic events with vegetation size these … the association with higher
mortality persisted only in patients … for the management of infective endocarditis: the Task Force …

Risk factors for neurological complications in left-sided infective endocarditis

AS Das, M McKeown, SA Jordan, K Li… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Elsevier
… Several prior studies have shown an association with large vegetation sizes and … the size
of the vegetation associated with embolic risk has varied between studies (vegetations sizes >4 …

[HTML][HTML] Outcomes of surgery for infective endocarditis in children: a 30-year experience

B Khoo, E Buratto, TA Fricke, B Gelbart… - The Journal of thoracic …, 2019 - Elsevier
… To account for vegetation size relative to patient size, we … the risk of death and adverse
outcomes such as embolic phenomena.8, … The association between adjusted vegetation size and …

The role of imaging in infective endocarditis

B Ivanovic, J Popovic, D Dukic… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… TTE and TEE are useful in detection, accurate localisation and estimation of vegetation size,
… of the embolic risk. The basic echocardiographic finding in IE is vegetation (Figure 1), but …

ST-elevation myocardial infarction associated with infective endocarditis

S Nazir, E Elgin, R Loynd, M Zaman… - The American journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
risk of septic embolism is very high in infective endocarditis, … features (including vegetation
size and valves involved); catheterization … of infective endocarditis of the European Society of …

Clinical features and outcome of infective endocarditis in a university hospital in Romania

EE Babeș, DA Lucuța, CD Petcheși, AA Zaha, C Ilyes… - Medicina, 2021 - mdpi.com
… in association with a … vegetations (r = 0.323, p = 0.002) by bivariate analysis. In multivariate
logistic regression analysis only vegetation size remained independent predictor of embolic

[PDF][PDF] D-Dimer is a strong predictor of in-hospital mortality in patients with infective endocarditis

VÖ Barış, M Kılıçkap, H Göksülük… - Anatolian Journal of …, 2019 - jag.journalagent.com
embolism in IE without a correlation with the vegetation size or platelet count. … infective
endocarditis executive summary; the task force on infective endocarditis of the European society

[HTML][HTML] Coagulation: At the heart of infective endocarditis

L Liesenborghs, S Meyers, T Vanassche… - Journal of Thrombosis …, 2020 - Elsevier
risk factors for embolization are vegetation size and mitral valve localization. Another important
risk factor for embolization is infection … The American Heart Association further advises …

Cardiovascular imaging in infective endocarditis: a multimodality approach

SJ Horgan, A Mediratta, LD Gillam - Circulation: Cardiovascular …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
… in reported high-risk cutoff values. In … vegetation size >10 mm and high vegetation mobility
were independently associated with embolic events with vegetation size >15 mm and infection