Glaser N, Jackson V, Holzmann MJ, Franco-Cereceda A, Sartipy U. Prosthetic valve endocarditis after surgical aortic valve replacement. Circulation. 2017;136(3):329–31. https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.117.028783.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Muñoz P, Kestler M, De Alarcon A, Miro JM, Bermejo J, Rodríguez-Abella H, et al. Current epidemiology and outcome of infective endocarditis: a multicenter, prospective, cohort study. Med (Baltim). 2015;94(43):e1816. https://doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000001816.

Article  Google Scholar 

Baddour LM, Wilson WR, Bayer AS, Fowler VG Jr., Tleyjeh IM, Rybak MJ, et al. Infective endocarditis in adults: diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, and management of vomplications: a scientific statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2015;132(15):1435–86. https://doi.org/10.1161/cir.0000000000000296.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Delgado V, Ajmone Marsan N, de Waha S, Bonaros N, Brida M, Burri H, et al. 2023 ESC guidelines for the management of endocarditis. Eur Heart J. 2023;44(39):3948–4042. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad193.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Chuard C, Herrmann M, Vaudaux P, Waldvogel FA, Lew DP. Successful therapy of experimental chronic foreign-body infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by antimicrobial combinations. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1991;35(12):2611–6. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.35.12.2611.

Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Vazquez GJ, Archer GL. Antibiotic therapy of experimental Staphylococcus epidermidis endocarditis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1980;17(2):280–5. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.17.2.280.

Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Karchmer AW, Archer GL, Dismukes WE. Rifampin treatment of prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Staphylococcus epidermidis. Rev Infect Dis. 1983;5(Suppl 3):S543–8. https://doi.org/10.1093/clinids/5.supplement_3.s543.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Hammond GW, Stiver HG. Combination antibiotic therapy in an outbreak of prosthetic endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus epidermidis. Can Med Assoc J. 1978;118(5):524–30.

CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Drinković D, Morris AJ, Pottumarthy S, MacCulloch D, West T. Bacteriological outcome of combination versus single-agent treatment for staphylococcal endocarditis. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2003;52(5):820–5. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkg440.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Chu VH, Miro JM, Hoen B, Cabell CH, Pappas PA, Jones P, et al. Coagulase-negative staphylococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis–a contemporary update based on the International collaboration on endocarditis: prospective cohort study. Heart. 2009;95(7):570–6. https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2008.152975.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Ramos-Martínez A, Muñoz Serrano A, de Alarcón González A, Muñoz P, Fernández-Cruz A, Valerio M, et al. Gentamicin may have no effect on mortality of staphylococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis. J Infect Chemother. 2018;24(7):555–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiac.2018.03.003.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Le Bot A, Lecomte R, Gazeau P, Benezit F, Arvieux C, Ansart S, et al. Is rifampin use associated with better outcome in staphylococcal prosthetic valve rndocarditis? A multicenter retrospective sudy. Clin Infect Dis. 2021;72(9):e249–55. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1040.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Ryder JH, Tong SYC, Gallagher JC, McDonald EG, Thevarajan I, Lee TC, et al. Deconstructing the dogma: systematic literature teview and meta-analysis of adjunctive gentamicin and rifampin in staphylococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022;9(11):ofac583. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac583.

Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Facilities staffing requirements for the Veterans Health Administration-Resource Planning and Methodology for the future. Washington, D.C.: National Academies. https://doi.org/10.17226/25454

Sohn MW, Arnold N, Maynard C, Hynes DM. Accuracy and completeness of mortality data in the Department of Veterans affairs. Popul Health Metr. 2006;4:2. https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-4-2.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Austin PC, Stuart EA. Moving towards best practice when using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score to estimate causal treatment effects in observational studies. Stat Med. 2015;34(28):3661–79. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.6607.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Cole SR, Hernán MA. Adjusted survival curves with inverse probability weights. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2004;75(1):45–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2003.10.004.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Le Borgne F, Giraudeau B, Querard AH, Giral M, Foucher Y. Comparisons of the performance of different statistical tests for time-to-event analysis with confounding factors: practical illustrations in kidney transplantation. Stat Med. 2016;35(7):1103–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.6777.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

von Elm E, Altman DG, Egger M, Pocock SJ, Gøtzsche PC, Vandenbroucke JP. The strengthening the reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies. Lancet. 2007;370(9596):1453–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(07)61602-x.

Article  Google Scholar 

Hadji-Turdeghal K, Jensen AD, Bruun NE, Iversen KK, Bundgaard H, Smerup M, et al. Temporal trends in the incidence of infective endocarditis in patients with a prosthetic heart valve. Open Heart. 2023;10(1). https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2023-002269.

Mori M, Gupta A, Wang Y, Vahl T, Nazif T, Kirtane AJ, et al. Trends in transcatheter and surgical aortic valve replacement among older adults in the United States. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021;78(22):2161–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.09.855.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Brennan JM, Holmes DR, Sherwood MW, Edwards FH, Carroll JD, Grover FL, et al. The association of transcatheter aortic valve replacement availability and hospital aortic valve replacement volume and mortality in the United States. Ann Thorac Surg. 2014;98(6):2016–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.07.051. discussion 22.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Béraud G, Pulcini C, Paño-Pardo JR, Hoen B, Beovic B, Nathwani D. How do physicians cope with controversial topics in existing guidelines for the management of infective endocarditis? Results of an international survey. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2016;22(2):163–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2015.10.013.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Tissot-Dupont H, Casalta JP, Gouriet F, Hubert S, Salaun E, Habib G, et al. International experts’ practice in the antibiotic therapy of infective endocarditis is not following the guidelines. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2017;23(10):736–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2017.03.007.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Huang G, Gupta S, Davis KA, Barnes EW, Beekmann SE, Polgreen PM, et al. Infective endocarditis guidelines: the challenges of adherence-a survey of infectious diseases clinicians. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020;7(9):ofaa342. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa342.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Fowler VG, Durack DT, Selton-Suty C, Athan E, Bayer AS, Chamis AL, et al. The 2023 Duke-International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious diseases criteria for infective endocarditis: updating the modified Duke Criteria. Clin Infect Dis. 2023;77(4):518–26. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad271.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar