When should we operate on patients with acute infective endocarditis?

Contemporary Clinical Profile and Outcome of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis

2007 • 643 citations

Changing Patient Characteristics and the Effect on Mortality in Endocarditis

2002 • 537 citations

Echocardiography predicts embolic events in infective endocarditis

2001 • 439 citations

Early Predictors of In-Hospital Death in Infective Endocarditis

2004 • 418 citations

Emboli in Infective Endocarditis: The Prognostic Value of Echocardiography

1991 • 407 citations

Neurologic Manifestations of Infective Endocarditis

2000 • 402 citations

Surgical management of infective endocarditis associated with cerebral complications

1995 • 300 citations

Neurological Outcome of Septic Cardioembolic Stroke After Infective Endocarditis

2006 • 264 citations

Surgical treatment of active infective endocarditis: A continued challenge

2006 • 254 citations

Aorto-cavitary fistulous tract formation in infective endocarditis: clinical and echocardiographic features of 76 cases and risk factors for mortality

2004 • 238 citations

Prognostic Stratification of Patients with Left-Sided Endocarditis Determined at Admission

2007 • 199 citations

Subclinical Brain Embolization in Left-Sided Infective Endocarditis

2009 • 197 citations

Surgery for active culture-positive endocarditis: determinants of early and late outcome

2000 • 165 citations

Prediction of Rapid versus Prolonged Healing of Infective Endocarditis by Monitoring Vegetation Size

1991 • 161 citations

Stroke is not a contraindication for urgent valve replacement in acute infective endocarditis.

2001 • 145 citations

Clinical and prognostic profile of patients with infective endocarditis who need urgent surgery

2006 • 137 citations

Active Native Valve Endocarditis: Determinants of Operative Death and Late Mortality

1997 • 135 citations

Endocarditis in the elderly: clinical, echocardiographic, and prognostic features

2003 • 127 citations

Endocarditis-related cerebral aneurysms: radiologic changes with treatment.

1995 • 123 citations

In-hospital mortality of infective endocarditis: Prognostic factors and evolution over an 8-year period

2007 • 111 citations

Does Statin Therapy Decrease the Risk for Bleeding in Patients Who Are Receiving Warfarin?

2007 • 75 citations

Prognostic Value of N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide in Patients With Active Infective Endocarditis

2007 • 67 citations