Surgical management of endocarditis: the society of thoracic surgeons clinical practice guideline.

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Division of Infectious Diseases, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Surgery, Saint Mary’s Hospital, Waterbury, Connecticut; Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Cardiac Vascular and Thoracic Surgeons, Cincinnati, Ohio; Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; and Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio