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PERDOMO GARCIA, Frank Josué et al. Infectious endocarditis: surgical experience at the Cardiology Center of Santiago de Cuba. MEDISAN [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.6, pp.736-744. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive cross-sectional and epidemiological study was carried out in 104 patients operated due to infectious endocarditis at the Cardiology Center of the "Saturnino Lora "Provincial Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba from January 1988 to December 2008. Among the findings was the prevalence of the 15-45 year-old patients, male sex, rheumatic heart disease as predisposing factor, and septic and infectious presentation, staphylococci as pathogens and negative blood cultures. Valve disease was the main surgical indication followed by heart failure. The mortality was 16,3 % attributable mainly to multiorgan failure due to sepsis and to the low cardiac output. The results of these interventions are favorable in that institution.

Palabras clave : heart disease; infectious endocarditis; valve disease; heart failure; multiorgan failure; surgical treatment.

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