Author(s)

Youssef El Bekkali¹, Noureddine Atmani^1*, Siham Bellouize¹, Mohamed Drissi², Younes Moutakiallah¹, Mehdi Bamous¹, Abdessamad Abdou¹, Fouad Nya¹, Anis Seghrouchni¹, Mahdi Aithoussa¹, Brahim Amahzoune¹, Abdedaim Hatim Ghadbane², Abdelatif Boulahya¹

¹Cardiac Surgery Department, Mohammed V Military Hospital, Rabat, Morocco.
²Reanimation of Cardiac Surgery Department, Mohamed V Medical Faculty, Rabat, Morocco.

Aim: Comparing the results of acute phase infectious endocarditis surgery between two periods. Methods and Results: The study is about 2 series, series A between 1993 and 1997, and series B between 1998 and 2012, respectively 13 and 51 patients. The two periods were similar concerning the number of patients per year, which was 3.12 cases/year for series A and 3.64 cases/year for series B. The authors noted a change in epidemiological profile, with an increase of median age (31 y.o for series A and 37 y.o for series B), and the emergency of endocarditis on prosthetic valve (none on series A and 8 cases for series B). Surgical indications and results didn’t change too much, hospital mortality rate was 15.3% for series A and 17.6% for series B. Conclusion: Infectious endocarditis is still a major public healthcare problem in developing countries, despite the development of diagnostic tools and patient care. Prevention is still the major asset in the treatment of this disease.

Infectious Endocarditis, Acute Phase, Surgery

El Bekkali, Y. , Atmani, N. , Bellouize, S. , Drissi, M. , Moutakiallah, Y. , Bamous, M. , Abdou, A. , Nya, F. , Seghrouchni, A. , Aithoussa, M. , Amahzoune, B. , Ghadbane, A. and Boulahya, A. (2016) Surgery in the Acute Phase of Infective Endocarditis: 5 Years after Our Initial Experience. World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases, 6, 275-284. doi: 10.4236/wjcd.2016.68031.