Abstract
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2023 guidelines for the management of infective endocarditis (IE) stress that a multidisciplinary approach is needed to manage patients with IE. In our view, the guidelines do not include the relevant perspectives from modern microbiology. The diagnostic criteria for IE were changed in the ESC 2023 guidelines, and many IE-causing pathogens are either not clearly defined. Moreover, an improved understanding of the relationship between bacterial species and the risk for IE has not been implemented. The guidelines give detailed and, in our view, incorrect instructions about diagnostic testing in blood culture-negative IE without presenting proper evidence. Other important diagnostic aspects, such as the value of repeated blood cultures and incubation time for blood cultures, are not discussed. We believe that a multidisciplinary collaboration that include microbiologists would have improved these guidelines, and we hope for a future harmonization of diagnostic criteria for IE.
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