Infective endocarditis after open heart surgery

ABSTRACT

This work was done in Ain Shams University hospital during the period from December 1988 to July 1989. This included 20 patients subjected to open heart surgery and suffering from post operative non reactive fever clinically diagnosed as infection endocarditis. The frequency of positive blood culture endocarditis following open hear surgery was 2.5% and the most affected valve in our study was prosthetic aortic valve [60%].Pseudomonas aerugenosa represented 60% of the isolated organisms from blood cultures, followed by staph aureus [30%] streptpneumonea and Klebsiella [20%], and finally diphthroids in 10% of cases