Evolução das alterações e atualizações do protocolo 2007 da American Heart Association para prevenção da endocardite infecciosa / Evolution of amendments and updates of 2007 protocol of the American Heart Association for prevention of infective endocarditis
J. Health Sci. Inst
; 27(2)abr.-jun. 2009. ilus
Article
in Portuguese
| LILACS
| ID: lil-541597
Responsible library:
BR12.1
RESUMO
Determinados procedimentos odontológicos podem causar bacteremia transitória. Pacientes com condições cardíacas de risco podem desenvolver endocardite infecciosa. Há décadas a American Heart Association (AHA) estabelece recomendações sobre procedimentos odontológicos e condições cardíacas de risco para endocardite, as quais devem receber profilaxia antibiótica. O propósito desta revisão foi descrever a evolução das alterações e divulgar as novas recomendações da AHA para a prevenção da endocardite infecciosa, publicadas em 2007.
ABSTRACT
Some dental procedures can cause transient bacteremia that in patients with risk cardiac conditions can evolve to infective endocarditis. For decades the American Heart Association (AHA) has been establishing recommendations about the dental procedures and cardiac conditions that bring risk for infective endocarditis, which must receive antibiotic prophylaxis. The purpose of this study is to describe the evolution of the changes and disseminate the new recommendations by the AHAfor the prevention of infective endocarditis which was published in 2007.
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Health context:
SDG3 - Health and Well-Being
Health problem:
Target 3.4: Reduce premature mortality due to noncommunicable diseases
Database:
LILACS
Main subject:
Antibiotic Prophylaxis
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Endocarditis, Bacterial
Type of study:
Practice guideline
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Risk factors
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Portuguese
Journal:
J. Health Sci. Inst
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2009
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidade de São Paulo/BR
/
Universidade de Sãoi Paulo/BR