Publications by authors named "Elisabeth Berastegui"
Article Synopsis
- A study was done on patients with a heart infection called infective endocarditis (IE) who didn't have surgery but were treated with antibiotics for a long time.
- Researchers looked at 32 patients over several years, mostly older men, to see how well they did with this treatment.
- The results showed some patients got better, but a few had relapses of the infection, and some unfortunately died, though not all deaths were due to the infection.
Introduction And Objectives: In infective endocarditis (IE), decisions on surgical interventions are challenging and a high percentage of patients with surgical indication do not undergo these procedures. This study aimed to evaluate the short- and long-term prognosis of patients with surgical indication, comparing those who underwent surgery with those who did not.
Methods: We included 271 patients with left-sided IE treated at our institution from 2003 to 2018 and with an indication for surgery.