Preoperative risk stratification in infective endocarditis. Does the EuroSCORE model work? Preliminary results | Zendy

Carlos A. Mestres | Zendy; Miguel Ángel Castro | Zendy; Eduardo Bernabeu | Zendy; Miguel Josa | Zendy; Ramón Cartañá | Zendy; José Luís Pomar | Zendy; José M. Miró | Zendy; Jaime Mulet | Zendy

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Preoperative risk stratification in infective endocarditis. Does the EuroSCORE model work? Preliminary results

Author(s) -

Carlos A. Mestres,

Miguel Ángel Castro,

Eduardo Bernabeu,

Miguel Josa,

Ramón Cartañá,

José Luís Pomar,

José M. Miró,

Jaime Mulet

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303

H-Index - 133

eISSN - 1873-734X

pISSN - 1010-7940

DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2007.04.010

Subject(s) - medicine , logistic regression , euroscore , receiver operating characteristic , cohort , framingham risk score , endocarditis , cardiac surgery , infective endocarditis , area under the curve , prospective cohort study , surgery , cardiology , disease

There is an important role for risk prediction in cardiac surgery. Prediction models are useful in decision making and quality assurance. Patients with infective endocarditis (IE) have a particularly high risk of mortality. The aim was to assess the performance of European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) in IE.

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