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CIED: cardiac implantable electronic device; CT: computed tomography; [18F]-FDG PET/CT: 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with computed tomography; IE: infective endocarditis; NVE: native valve endocarditis; PCR: polymerase chain reaction; PVE: prosthetic valve endocarditis.
* Microorganisms that commonly cause IE include:
In the setting of intracardiac prosthetic material, the following additional bacteria should be included as "typical" pathogens: coagulase negative staphylococci, Corynebacterium striatum, Corynebacterium jeikeium, Serratia marcescens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Cutibacterium acnes, non-tuberculous mycobacteria (especially M. chimaerae), and Candida spp.
¶ "Blood culture set" is defined as a simultaneously drawn pair of 1 aerobic and 1 anaerobic bottle. "Positive" blood culture set is defined as microbial growth from at least 1 of the bottles. Blood cultures from separate venipuncture sites are strongly recommended whenever possible for evaluating suspected IE.
Δ Amplicon (16S or 18S) or metagenomic (shotgun) sequencing.
◊ Or equivalent titer result with alternative methodology.
§ Vegetation refers to an oscillating intracardiac mass on a valve (or other cardiac tissue, endovascular CIED, or other implanted material), in the absence of an alternative anatomic explanation.
¥ Valvular/leaflet perforation refers to interruption of valvular endocardial tissue.
‡ Valvular/leaflet aneurysm refers to elongation with saccular outpouching of valvular tissue.
† Abscess refers to perivalvular (or perigraft) soft tissue lesion with variable degree of evolution to an organized collection.
** Pseudoaneurysm refers to perivalvular cavity communicating with the cardiovascular lumen.
¶¶ Intracardiac fistula refers to communication between 2 neighboring cardiac chambers through a perforation.
ΔΔ Abnormal FDG-PET metabolic activity for PVE (performed at least 3 months after surgical implantation) refers to intense, focal/multifocal or heterogeneous FDG uptake patterns. Abnormal metabolic activity for NVE and cardiac device leads refers to any abnormal uptake pattern. Some prosthetic valves may have intrinsic non-pathological FDG uptake; an isolated FDG-PET positive generator pocket in the absence of intracardiac infection does not qualify as a major criterion.
◊◊ Inclusion of the surgical criterion should not be interpreted as giving license to forgo sending appropriate samples for histopathology and microbiological studies.
§§ Prosthetic valve or previous valve repair via either open-heart surgical or transcatheter approach.
¥¥ Congenital heart disease includes cyanotic CHD (tetralogy of Fallot, univentricular heart, complete transposition, truncus arteriosus, hypoplastic left heart); endocardial cushion defects; ventricular septal defect; left-sided lesions (bicuspid aortic valve; aortic stenosis and insufficiency, mitral valve prolapse, mitral stenosis and insufficiency); right-sided lesions (Ebstein anomaly, anomalies of the pulmonary valve, congenital tricuspid valve disease); patent ductus arteriosus; and other congenital anomalies, with or without repair.
‡‡ Immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis defined as either:
AKI: New unexplained reduction of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <60 mL/min/1.73 m2.
Acute on chronic kidney injury: Reduction by at least 1 ordinal level of function: eg, from "moderately" to "severely" decreased or from "severely decreased" to "kidney failure".
Interpretive ranges for eGFR: Normal >60 mL/min/1.73 m2; moderately decreased 30 to 59 mL/min/1.73 m2; severely decreased 15 to 29 mL/min/1.73 m2; kidney failure <15 mL/min/1.73 m2.
†† This excludes single positive blood cultures or sequence-based assays for microorganisms which commonly contaminate blood cultures or rarely cause IE.