The article by Pivatto F Jr et al. allows us to discuss the important issue of prognostic scores in patients who have cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis (IE). The management of left- sided IE often involves surgery during the index admission, and the main challenge is to rapidly and correctly identify patients at high risk and to transfer them to institutions with a surgical team with expertise in endocarditis surgery. Prognostic scores are important for several reasons: a reasonable estimate […]