[The characteristics of actual curse of infectious endocarditis in cardiac surgery hospital].

The demographic and clinical data of 520 patients with infectious endocarditis treated in 2005-2017 was analyzed with the purpose to assess current trends in epidemiology and approaches to surgical correction of infectious endocarditis. The analysis established increasing of absolute number of patients with infectious endocarditis, their average age and number of female patients. The incidence of early prosthetic endocarditis and its hospital mortality decreased. The study determined increasing of number of emergency interventions, more frequent valve-preserving operations, increasing of number of interventions for perivascular lesions and more frequent application of bioprostheses.