Original articleSurgical intervention for infective endocarditis in infancy and childhood
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Outcomes of surgery for infective endocarditis in children: A 30-year experience
2019, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryCitation Excerpt :They demonstrated that surgery within 3 days of diagnosis was safe and did not increase the risks of reoperation or mortality. In a report from our institution in 1992, Nomura and colleagues13 highlighted the need for surgery during active or acute infection in select patients. Overall, children who had surgery for IE at our institution had good long-term outcomes.
Early surgical therapy of infective endocarditis in children: A 15-year experience
2013, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryCitation Excerpt :To date, information is limited concerning the effects of surgical timing on the outcomes in children. Although Nomura and colleagues7 demonstrated that surgical intervention during the active phase of infection might be a necessary adjunct to antibiotic therapy in certain subgroups, the timing of the surgical intervention was not described. Recently, Hickey and colleagues5 demonstrated that surgery occurring within 1 week of diagnosis of a cerebrovascular accident due to septic embolization was safe.
Factors associated with surgery for active endocarditis in congenital heart disease
2012, International Journal of CardiologyCitation Excerpt :The decision of early surgery for active IE is difficult in pediatric patients with congenital heart disease (CHD), due to the complexity of their heart structure and hemodynamics, frequent use of artificial materials for a previous repair and/or a small body size for an artificial valve if needed. Nomura and colleagues recommend early surgical intervention for IE in children [2], whereas our previous results showed that the mortality of pediatric patients with surgery during active IE to be similar to that with medical treatment alone. [3] In a latter report, the timing of surgery averaged at 37 days of illness, which seems a little late, and the result may have differed if surgery was done earlier.
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