Incidence and clinical impact of infective endocarditis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation

To describe the characteristics of infective endocarditis (IE) after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).This study was performed using the GAMES database, a national prospective registry of consecutive patients with IE in 26 Spanish hospitals. Of the 739 cases of IE diagnosed during the study, 1.3% were post-TAVI IE, and these 10 cases, contributed by five centres, represented 1.1% of the 952 TAVIs performed. Mean age was 80 years....