Clinical Study
The Need for a Specific Risk Prediction System in Native Valve Infective Endocarditis Surgery
Table 2
Independent preoperative predictors of mortality (logistic regression analysis) and the deriving scoring system for mortality prediction in native valve IE.
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1Creatinine >2 mg/dL. 2Patients admitted to the Cardiac Surgery Department on mechanical ventilation (intubated) or requiring ventilatory support by noninvasive ventilation during preoperative stay (generally for poor hemodynamic conditions and/or pulmonary edema). 3This variable identified operation without possibility of previous attainment of negative cultures by antibiotic therapy (latest culture had always been performed within 5 to 7 days preoperatively). 4Either annular abscess or aortocavitary fistula. |