Impact of the time interval between diagnosis and symptoms on survival of surgical patients with left-sided infective endocarditis: A propensity score analysis / Impacto del intervalo de tiempo entre el diagnóstico y los síntomas en la supervivencia a medio plazo de pacientes quirúrgicos con endocarditis infecciosa del lado izquierdo: un análisis con propensity score
From 2014 to 2019, data from 93 consecutive patients undergoing cardiac surgery due to left-sided±right-sided IE were prospectively recorded in our specific electronic database. Patients were classified into 2 groups according to time interval between first clinical symptoms and definitive endocarditisdiagnosispatients with early diagnosis (≤8 days) and patients with late diagnosis (>8 days). Follow-up was 100% complete, and follow-up mean time was 471 days.
The association in the Kaplan-Meier analysis between "early-diagnosis group" and mortality suggests that this group of patients presents clinical characteristics of severity that, on the one hand, speed up the diagnostic process and on the other, converge in the determination of a higher euroSCORE II value, which is the only independent predictor of mid-term mortality according to our