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Abstract
Although early prosthetic valve endocarditis is a rare complication occurring during the early post operative period, but it can be considered the most serious one as early infection is usually severe and invasive and most probably leads to further complications and sometimes ends in patient’s death.
Diagnosis of early prosthetic valve endocarditis is rather a difficult mission as its clinical presentations may be deceiv-ing and.its signs and symptorns always simulated by many other medical problems, so definite diagnosis always not established at the OptilTIUlTI time.
Treatment of early prosthetic valve endocarditis is another major problern as the severity of infection in these cases may always lead to both intracardiac complications such as prosthetic valve dehisence and dysfunction and extension of intracardiac infection beyond the valve, and also extracardiac complications such as systemic emboli that may affect any ofthe body systems or organs.
For all ofthe above, it is mandatory when dealing with early prosthetic valve endocarditis to apply the golden rule:
” Protection is better than treatment ” We have to study carefully the possible risk factors that may predispose to occurrence of early prosthetic valve endocarditis and take all precautions in order to avoid these risk factors aiming to reduce the incidence of occurrence of early prosthetic valve endocarditis as much as possible.
All ofthe above were the great stimulus for us to make this study to clarify and explain some points about early prosthetic valve endocarditis in our cardiac surgery center in order to improve our work and decrease morbidity and mortality of open heart surgery patients as much as possible.