Filipa Dourado Sotero1, Madalena Rosário1, Ana Catarina Fonseca1,2, José M Ferro3,4. 1. Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Neurology Service, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisbon, Portugal. 2. Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital de Santa Maria, Universidade de Lisboa, Neurology 6th floor, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz s/n, 1649-035, Lisbon, Portugal. 3. Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Neurology Service, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisbon, Portugal. jmferro@medicina.ulisboa.pt. 4. Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital de Santa Maria, Universidade de Lisboa, Neurology 6th floor, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz s/n, 1649-035, Lisbon, Portugal. jmferro@medicina.ulisboa.pt.
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this narrative review and update is to summarize the current knowledge and provide recent advances on the neurologic complications of infective endocarditis. RECENT FINDINGS: Neurological complications occur in about one-fourth of patients with infective endocarditis. Brain MRI represents a major tool for the identification of asymptomatic lesions, which occur in most of the patients with infective endocarditis. The usefulness of systematic brain imaging and the preferred treatment of patients with infective endocarditis and silent brain lesions remains uncertain. The basis of treatment of infective endocarditis is early antimicrobial therapy. In stroke due to infective endocarditis, anticoagulation and thrombolysis should be avoided. Endovascular treatment can be useful for both acute septic emboli and mycotic aneurysms, but evidence is still limited. In patients with neurological complications, cardiac surgery can be safely performed early, if indicated. The optimal management of a patients with neurological complications of infective endocarditis needs an individualized case discussion and the participation of a multidisciplinary team including neurologists, cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, neuroradiologists, neurosurgeons, and infectious disease specialists.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this narrative review and update is to summarize the current knowledge and provide recent advances on the neurologic complications of infective endocarditis. RECENT FINDINGS:Neurological complications occur in about one-fourth of patients with infective endocarditis. Brain MRI represents a major tool for the identification of asymptomatic lesions, which occur in most of the patients with infective endocarditis. The usefulness of systematic brain imaging and the preferred treatment of patients with infective endocarditis and silent brain lesions remains uncertain. The basis of treatment of infective endocarditis is early antimicrobial therapy. In stroke due to infective endocarditis, anticoagulation and thrombolysis should be avoided. Endovascular treatment can be useful for both acute septic emboli and mycotic aneurysms, but evidence is still limited. In patients with neurological complications, cardiac surgery can be safely performed early, if indicated. The optimal management of a patients with neurological complications of infective endocarditis needs an individualized case discussion and the participation of a multidisciplinary team including neurologists, cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, neuroradiologists, neurosurgeons, and infectious disease specialists.
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