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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1995;110:1745-1755
© 1995 Mosby, Inc.


SURGERY FOR ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE

SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS ASSOCIATED WITH CEREBRAL COMPLICATIONSMulti-center retrospective study in Japan

Kiyoyuki Eishi, MD, Kouhei Kawazoe, MD, Yoshihiro Kuriyama, MD, Yoshitsugu Kitoh, MD, Yasunaru Kawashima, MD, Teruo Omae, MD


Osaka, Japan, for the 174 centers of the Japanese Association of Thoracic Surgery

From the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Division of Neurology, National Cardiovascular Center of Japan, Osaka, Japan. Supported in part by a grant for research on cardiovascular diseases from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan.

Received for publication Dec. 23, 1994. Accepted for publication April 19, 1995. Address for reprints: Kiyoyuki Eishi, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cardiovascular Center of Japan, 5-7-1 Fujishiro-dai, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan.

Abstract

To establish guidelines for the surgical treatment of patients with infective endocarditis who have cerebrovascular complications, we conducted a detailed retrospective study of 181 of 244 patients with cerebral complications among 2523 surgical cases of infective endocarditis of the Japanese Association of Thoracic Surgery. The results showed that 9.7% of all patients with infective endocarditis had associated cerebral complications: 108 (44.3%) had active native valve endocarditis, 96 (39.3%) had healed native valve endocarditis, and 40 (16.4%) had prosthetic valve endocarditis. The hospital mortality of the patients with cerebral complications was 11.0% in the group as a whole: 13.9% in active native valve endocarditis, 3.1% in healed native valve endocarditis, and 37.5% in prosthetic valve endocarditis. Diseased valves included the following: aortic valve in 55.5%, mitral valve in 49.8%, tricuspid valve in 1.3%, and pulmonary valve in 1.3%. In 181 patients with cerebral complications, organisms were detected as follows: gram-positive cocci in 133 (73.5% [Streptococcus in 85, Staphylococcus in 32]), gram-negative in 18 (9.9%), fungus in 11 (6.1%), and unknown in 19 (10.5%). Types of cerebral complications included cerebral infarction in 64.6%, cerebral bleeding in 31.5%, cerebral abscess in 2.8%, and meningitis in 1.1%. Hospital mortality rate and an exacerbation rate of cerebral complications, including related death, according to the interval from onset of cerebral infarction to cardiac surgery, were as follows: 66.3% and 45.5% within 24 hours, 31.3% and 43.8% between 2 and 7 days, 16.7% and 16.7% between 8 and 14 days, 10.0% and 10.0% between 15 and 21 days, 26.3% and 10.5% between 22 and 28 days, and 7.0% and 2.3% over 4 weeks later, respectively. A significant correlation existed between the interval and the exacerbation of cerebral complications (tied p = 0.008). Preoperative risk factors affecting exacerbation of cerebral complications were as follows: (1) severity of cerebral complication (p = 0.006), (2) intervals (p = 0.012), and (3) uncontrolled congestive heart failure as indications for cardiac surgery (p = 0.014). One patient underwent a cardiac operation within 24 hours of the onset of cerebral hemorrhage and died of cerebral damage. No exacerbations occurred in 10 patients who underwent their operation between 2 and 28 days. Nevertheless, exacerbations occurred in 19.0% of patients whose operation was done more than 4 weeks later. These data suggest that cardiac operations can be done safely 4 weeks after cerebral infarction, and if the delay is more than 2 weeks, the exacerbation rate will be around 10%. The risk of progression of cerebral damage is still significant 15 days and even 4 weeks after cerebral hemorrhage. (J THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG 1995;110:1745-55)




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