PRetest prObability of Infectious ENDOCARDITIS for Appropriate Criteria

Status Completed

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Infective endocarditis is a potentially lethal disease that has undergone major changes over the last decades. The Duke Criteria are recommended for evaluation of probability of presence of infective endocarditis by current ESC guidelines. However, since the introduction of Duke criteria in 1994, characteristics of patients presenting with potential infective endocarditis have substantially changed, especially in tertiary care facilities, towards a high proportion of patients with immune deficiency (caused by illness or medically induced), critically ill patients, patients with prosthetic valves and patients with long-lasting intensive care treatment. Likewise, with the increasing interventional therapy of structural heart disease and device implantation in older and multi-morbid patient cohorts, the frequency of endocarditis on prosthetic material and devices increased over the last decades. While Duke criteria overall misclassify a substantial proportion of patients with endocarditis, Duke criteria are difficult to apply in these patients because of lower sensitivity. Therefore, several modifications of the Duke criteria have been proposed. In addition, the uncertainty regarding potential infective endocarditis of treating physicians due to clinical characteristics of their patients leads to an increase in requests for transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, overcoming echocardiography laboratories. In the present study the investigators aim to identify (I) the precision of the Duke score in predicting presence of infective endocarditis in patients examined at the echocardiography laboratory of the West German Heart Center (II) determine characteristics, not including echocardiography that are associated with increased risk of infective endocarditis, justifying transesophageal echocardiography examination and (III) establish scoring algorithms to help treating physicians to assess the risk of endocarditis in severely diseased patient cohorts prior to echocardiography examinations and to avoid unnecessary echo exams.

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NCT number	NCT03365193
Study type	Observational
Source	University Hospital, Essen
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase
Start date	December 1, 2017
Completion date	October 7, 2021

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PRetest prObability of Infectious ENDOCARDITIS for Appropriate Criteria Regarding Transesophageal ECHOcardiography in Tertiary Care Facilities (PRO ENDOCARDITIS ECHO-Study)

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