Table 1.
Author, year | PMID | Type of study | Country | Study time period | Population | Number of procedures | Patients with AP and IE | Patients with AP and w/o IE | Patients w/o AP and IE | Patients w/o AP and w/o IE |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tubiana, 2017 | 28,882,817 | Cohort study | France | 2008–2014 | Adults aged more than 18 years with prosthetic heart valves and undergoing invasive dental procedures | 103,463 | 4 | 52,276 | 10 | 51,173 |
Tubiana et al. study includes adults with prosthetic heart valves who undergo invasive and non-invasive dental procedures. For the analysis, we considered only the invasive dental procedures. The study describes the total number of patients and the total number of dental procedures. It must be noted, however, that a few patients received multiple dental procedures during the study periods. For this reason, we considered the total number of dental procedures, and not solely the number of patients
AP antibiotic prophylaxis; IE infective endocarditis; w/o with or without