Cardiac surgery in infective endocarditis and predictors of in-hospital mortality.

Introduction: Infective endocarditis (IE) is a serious disease with significant in-hospital mortality (15-30%) despite advances in medical and surgical therapy.

Aims: To perform a clinical characterization of patients undergoing cardiac surgery for IE and to identify factors that predict in-hospital mortality.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 145 patients with IE admitted between January 2006 and October 2017.

The role of Impella in high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention.

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been increasingly performed in patients with severely depressed left ventricular function and complex coronary lesions, including multivessel disease. Mechanical ventricular assist devices play an increasingly important role in high-risk PCI. Impella CP (Abiomed, Inc.