Assertion: endocarditis's course | /r/HasProperty | reasonable
Facets:
value: after valve surgery
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: However, if a patient undergoes valve surgery and the resected valve tissue is culture positive or a perivalvular abscess is found, then an entire course of antimicrobial therapy is reasonable after valve surgery.
text: If operative tissue cultures are positive, then an entire antimicrobial course is reasonable after valve surgery (Class IIa; Level of Evidence B).
text: In patients with positive intraoperative cultures or gram stain, a full course of post-operative therapy is reasonable, otherwise an additional 2 weeks and for those operated near the end of the standard period of treatment, simply completing the time remaining on the regimen for that type endocarditis (90).