Nephrologists Hate the Dialysis Catheters: A Systemic Review of Dialysis Catheter Associated Infective Endocarditis

Table 3

Indication of surgical management of Mitral valve IE.

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Indications for surgery in native valve endocarditis of mitral valve

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(i) Moderate to severe or severe mitral regurgitation with or without heart failure

(ii) Vegetation size measuring more than 10 mm

(iii) Mobile vegetation

(iv) Paravalvular abscess

(v) Evidence of a single embolic phenomenon including stroke

(vi) Failure of antibiotic therapy

(vii) Infection with a fungal organism

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[22].