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Infective endocarditis in congenital heart disease patients is showing continuously changing features and requires better classification based on disease activity, diagnostic status, and anatomy.
Highlights the changing features and need for better classification of infective endocarditis in the growing population of patients with congenital heart disease.
Infective endocarditis(IE) is the result of endovascular microbial infection. Due to the growing patient population suffering with preand postoperative congenital heart disease(CHD), the increased placement of prosthetic valves, vascular grafts and patches in the heart and also the improvement of intensive cardiac care, IE that is related to CHD is showing continuously changing features. In general, IE can be better classified by referring to the activity of the disease, the diagnostic status(definite/possible), the anatomic site(right/left side), the underlying disease(native valve/prosthetic valve/other foreign material), the microbiology of the disease(the causative microorganism and the culture/ serology/PCR/histology) and the patient population (CHD, nosocomial IE, drug users, hemodialysis, etc.).
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Chung Il Noh (2006) conducted an editorial in Infective endocarditis in congenital heart disease. Infective endocarditis in congenital heart disease patients is showing continuously changing features and requires better classification based on disease activity, diagnostic status, and anatomy.
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