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Does the type of prosthetic valve (biological vs mechanical) affect the incidence and risk of prosthetic valve endocarditis in patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement?
Does the type of prosthetic valve (biological vs mechanical) affect the incidence and risk of prosthetic valve endocarditis in patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement?
Should not yet drive valve selection in surgical aortic valve replacement; leaves open whether observed endocarditis risks.
rosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) is the most severe form of infective endocarditis and accounts for 20% of all cases of infective endocarditis. 1,2 However, studies reporting the incidence of PVE after surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) are scarce and based mainly on noncontemporary patient cohorts. Whether PVE affects biological and mechanical aortic valves to the same extent remains unknown. Therefore, we investigated the incidence and risk of PVE after surgical AVR in patients with biological and mechanical valves.
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Glaser et al. (2017) studied this question.
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