Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Association Between Surgical Indications, Operative Risk, and Clinical Outcome in Infective Endocarditis: A Prospective Study From the International Collaboration on Endocarditis"

Affiliations

• ¹ Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
• ² Barwon Health and Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
• ³ Hospital Louis Pradel, Lyon-Bron, France.
• ⁴ Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation, Brno, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
• ⁵ Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, and Unigranrio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• ⁶ Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clinic - IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁷ OhioHealth Heart and Vascular Physicians, Columbus, OH.
• ⁸ Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
• ⁹ University Hospital, Amiens, FranceINSERM U-1088, University of Picardie, Amiens, France.
• ¹⁰ Internal Medicine, University of Naples SUN, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy.
• ¹¹ Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹² Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ¹³ Cairo University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
• ¹⁴ University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia.
• ¹⁵ Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
• ¹⁶ Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.