2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) consensus guidelines: Surgical treatment of infective endocarditis: Executive summary

AATS Surgical Treatment of Infective Endocarditis Consensus Guidelines Writing Committee Chairs; Gösta B Pettersson; Joseph S Coselli; Writing Committee; Gösta B Pettersson; Joseph S Coselli; Syed T Hussain; Brian Griffin; Eugene H Blackstone; Steven M Gordon; Scott A LeMaire; Laila E Woc-Colburn

doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.09.093

2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) consensus guidelines: Surgical treatment of infective endocarditis: Executive summary

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2017 Jun;153(6):1241-1258.e29. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.09.093. Epub 2017 Jan 24.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address: petterg@ccf.org.
² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex; Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Tex.
³ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁵ Department of Infectious Disease, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.

PMID: 28365016
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.09.093

No abstract available

Keywords: AATS guidelines; cardiac surgery; infection; infective endocarditis; native valve endocarditis; prosthetic valve endocarditis; valve disease.

Publication types

Practice Guideline
Review

MeSH terms

Anti-Infective Agents / therapeutic use
Cardiac Surgical Procedures / standards*
Consensus
Endocarditis / diagnosis
Endocarditis / etiology
Endocarditis / surgery*
Evidence-Based Medicine / standards
Humans
Societies, Medical / standards
Thoracic Surgery / standards*
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Anti-Infective Agents