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Short Editorial Martins & Lamas Prognostic scores for surgical infective endocarditis Arq Bras Cardiol. 2020; 114(3):525-529 1. Pivatto Jr F, Bellagamba CCA, Pianca EG, Fernandes FS, Butzke M, Busato SB et al. Analysis of Risk Scores to Predict Mortality in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery for Endocarditis. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2020; 114(3):518-524 2. Roques F, Nashef SA, Michel P, Gauducheau E, de Vincentiis C, Baudet E, et al. Risk factors and outcome in European cardiac surgery: analysis of the EuroSCORE multinational database of 19030 patients. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 1999;15(6):816-22. 3. Nashef SA, Roques F, Sharples LD, Nilsson J, Smith C, Goldstone AR, et al. EuroSCORE II. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2012;41(4):734-44. 4. Martins ABB. Avaliação do desempenho de escores de prognóstico de cirurgia cardíaca em pacientes submetidos à troca valvar por endocardite infecciosa no Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, anos de 2006 a 2016. [dissertação]. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia; 2016. 5. Brandão TJ, Januario-da-Silva CA, Correia MG, Zappa M, Abrantes JA, Dantas AM, et al. Histopathology of valves in infective endocarditis, diagnostic criteria and treatment considerations. Infection. 2017;45(2):199-207. 6. Monteiro TS, Correia MG, Golebiovski WF, Barbosa GIF, Weksler C, Lamas CC. Asymptomatic and symptomatic embolic events in infective endocarditis: associated factors and clinical impact. Braz J Infect Dis. 2017;21(3):240-7. 7. Patrat-Delon S, Rouxel A, Gacouin A, Revest M, Flécher E, Fouquet O, et al. EuroSCORE II underestimates mortality after cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2016;49(3):944-51. 8. Gaca JG, Sheng S, Daneshmand MA, O’Brien S, Rankin JS, Brennan JM, et al. Outcomes for endocarditis surgery in North America: a simplified risk scoring system. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2011;141(1):98-106. 9. Martínez-SellésM, Muñoz P, Arnáiz A, MorenoM, Gálvez J, Rodríguez-Roda J, et al. Valve surgery in active infective endocarditis: a simple score to predict in-hospital prognosis. Int J Cardiol. 2014;175(1):133-7. 10. Gatti G, Perrotti A, Obadia J, Duval X, Iung B, Alla F, et al. Simple scoring system to predict in hospital mortality after surgery for infective endocarditis. J AmHeart Assoc. 2017;6(7):pii:e004806. 11. Di Mauro M, Dato GMA, Barili F, Gelsomino S, Santè P, Corte AD, et al. Corrigendum to “A predictive model for early mortality after surgical treatment of heart valve or prosthesis infective endocarditis. The EndoSCORE”. Int J Cardiol. 2018 May 1;258:337. 12. Olmos C, Vilacosta I, Habib G, Maroto L, Fernández C, López J, et al. Risk score for cardiac surgery in active left-sided infective endocarditis. Heart. 2017;103(18):1435-42. 13. De Feo M, Cotrufo M, Carozza A, De Santo LS, Amendolara F, Giordano S, et al. The need for a specific risk prediction system in native valve infective endocarditis surgery. ScientificWorldJournal. 2012;2012:307571. 14. Casalino R, Tarasoutchi F, Spina G, Katz M, Bacelar A, Sampaio R, et al. EuroSCORE models in a cohort of patients with valvular heart disease and a high prevalence of rheumatic fever submitted to surgical procedures. PLoS One. 2015;10(2):e0118357. References This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Table 3 – Areas under the curve (AUC) of the proposed risk scores for assessing mortality in cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis SCORE AUC Postoperative intrahospital mortality Evaluated IE separately? N. studied Country Author, year Logistic EuroSCORE 0.79 4.7% no 14,799 European countries* Nashef 1999 EuroSCORE II 0.81 3.9% no 22,381 European countries** Nashef 2012 STS-IE 0.76 8.2% yes 13,617 USA Gaca 2011 “De Feo”*** 0.88 9.1% yes 440 Italy De Feo 2012 PALSUSE 0.68 24.3% yes 437 Spain Martínez-Sellés 2014 INC-Rio 0.97 17.5% yes 154 Brazil Martins 2016 RISK-E 0.82 28.6% yes 671 France and Spain Olmos 2017 AEPEI 0.78 15.5% yes 361 France and Italy Gatti 2017 EndoSCORE 0.85 11% yes 2,715 Italy Di Mauro 2017 Not created Not assessed 29% yes 107 Brazil Pivatto Jr F, 2020 AUC: area under the curve; IE: infective endocarditis. *Participating countries were not discriminated. **Most of the research centers were located in France, Italy and Spain; countries in South and North America, Asia and Africa had a small participation. USA: United States of América. ***Only patients with native valve IE were studied; no name was given to the score. 529