Neurological Complications in Surgical Patients with Left-Sided Infective Endocarditis: Risk Factors, Prognosis, and Surgical Timing
Zining Wu, Jun Zheng, Qi Miao, Shangdong Xu, Guotao Ma, Xingrong Liu, Jianzhou Liu, Sheng Yang, Yanxue Zhao, Xinpei Liu, Chaoji Zhang · 2025
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Zining Wu and co-authors report a 2025 study of brain complications in patients having surgery for heart valve infection. Infective endocarditis can seed the brain with clots or bleeds before surgery. When to operate on such patients, and who fares worst, are live questions for surgical teams.
The team reviewed 605 patients with left-sided valve infection treated between 2012 and 2024. They sorted patients by whether brain complications came first, matched the groups on background traits, and split surgical timing into early and delayed. Mitral valve involvement, highly mobile growths on the valve, and longer waits before surgery raised the risk of brain events. After matching, death rates were alike between groups, but new brain events after surgery ran higher in the complication group.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zining Wu, Jun Zheng, Qi Miao, Shangdong Xu, Guotao Ma, Xingrong Liu, Jianzhou Liu, Sheng Yang, Yanxue Zhao, Xinpei Liu, Chaoji Zhang |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |