Norman Mangner, Vassili Panagides, David Del Val, Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, Lisa Crusius, Eric Durand, Nikolaj Ihlemann, Marina Urena, Costanza Pellegrini, Francesco Giannini, Tomasz Gasior, Wojtek Wojakowski, Martin Landt, Vincent Auffret, Jan-Malte Sinning, Asim N Cheema, Luis Nombela-Franco, Chekrallah Chamandi, Francisco Campelo-Parada, Erika Munoz-Garcia, Howard C Herrmann, Luca Testa, Won-Keun Kim, Helene Eltchaninoff, Lars Søndergaard, Dominique Himbert, Oliver Husser, Azeem Latib, Hervé Le Breton, Clement Servoz, Philippe Gervais, Mélanie Côté, Holger Thiele, David Holzhey, Axel Linke, Josep Rodés-Cabau
BACKGROUND: Echocardiography is the primary imaging modality for diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) in prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) including IE after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). This study aimed to evaluate the characteristics and clinical outcomes of patients with absent compared with evident echocardiographic signs of TAVI-IE. METHODS: Patients with definite TAVI-IE derived from the Infectious Endocarditis after TAVI International Registry were investigated comparing those with absent and evident echocardiographic signs of IE defined as vegetation, abscess, pseudoaneurysm, intracardiac fistula or valvular perforation or aneurysm...
November 4, 2022: Clinical Infectious Diseases