Can We Really Achieve a 1-Year Mortality Rate Lower Than 10% in Patients With Infective Endocarditis?

Pierre Tattevin (1) , Erwan Donal (2) , Matthieu Revest (3)

1 Service des maladies infectieuses et réanimation médicale [Rennes] = Infectious Disease and Intensive Care [Rennes]
2 Service de cardiologie et maladies vasculaires [Rennes] = Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery [Rennes]
3 Unité de maladies infectieuses

Letter to the editor. We read with much interest the article by Botelho-Nevers et al1 titled "Dramatic Reduction of Infective Endocarditis-Related Mortality With a Management-Based Approach" that recently appeared in the Archives.1 This study attracted much attention in the field of infective endocarditis (IE), as the authors reported a 1-year mortality at 8.2% (13 of 160), while previous studies invariably reported in-hospital mortality rates of 15% to 25%, even in expert centers such as those participating in the International Collaboration on Endocarditis.

Domaines: Ingénierie biomédicale; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Maladies infectieuses

Pierre Tattevin, Erwan Donal, Matthieu Revest. Can We Really Achieve a 1-Year Mortality Rate Lower Than 10% in Patients With Infective Endocarditis?. 2010, pp.211-212. ⟨10.1001/archinternmed.2009.485⟩. ⟨hal-00910184⟩