Multimodality imaging in the diagnosis and management of prosthetic valve endocarditis: A contemporary narrative review

Figure 2 Prevalence of causative organisms according to timing and technique of valve intervention. The prevalence of causative organisms of prosthetic valve endocaridits in surgical left-sided valve replacement among 579 patients pooled from 5 studies[2,32-34,79] and transcatheter aortic valve replacement among 275 patients from 2 studies[35,36], categorized according to time since the index procedure. PVE: Prosthetic valve endocarditis; SVR: Surgical valve replacement; TAVR: transcatheter aortic valve replacement.