Surgery for Infective Endocarditis after Primary Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement-A Retrospective Single-Center Analysis

CONCLUSIONS: With a rising number of patients after TAVR, prosthetic-valve endocarditis will increasingly occur in patients who were previously considered high or intermediate risk. Our results show that patients with TAVR infective endocarditis can be operated on with good results. Surgical therapy should not be withheld from TAVR patients with infective …