Aortic Valve Calcification and the Risk of Infective Endocarditis: Insights From the DANCAVAS Trial

Lytfi Krasniqi; Axel C P Diederichsen; Jes S Lindholt; Emil Johannes Ravn; Joachim Sejr Skovbo; Lasse Obel; Lars Peter Riber; Amal Haujir; Oke Gerke; Martin Busk; Lars Frost; Jess Lambrechtsen; Marek Karon; Marlene Tofterup; Kristian Ovrehus; Jordi Sanchez Dahl

doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2025.08.024

Aortic Valve Calcification and the Risk of Infective Endocarditis: Insights From the DANCAVAS Trial

Lytfi Krasniqi^*
, Axel C P Diederichsen
, Jes S Lindholt
, Emil Johannes Ravn
, Joachim Sejr Skovbo
, Lasse Obel
, Lars Peter Riber
, Amal Haujir
, Oke Gerke
, Martin Busk
, Lars Frost
, Jess Lambrechtsen
, Marek Karon
, Marlene Tofterup
, Kristian Ovrehus
, Jordi Sanchez Dahl

^*Corresponding author for this work

Medicine (NFS)

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1142-1145
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Volume	86
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2025.08.024
Publication status	Published - 14 Oct 2025

Funding

No specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors was received for this substudy of DANCA-VAS. The primary study was supported by The Region of Southern Denmark, The University of Southern Denmark, Elite Research Center of Individualized Medicine in Arterial Diseases (CIMA) , Danish Council for Independent Research, The Danish Heart Foundation, Odense University Hospital, and The Helse Foundation. The authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

Funders
Region of Southern Denmark
University of Southern Denmark
Independent Research Fund Denmark
The Danish Heart Foundation
Odense University Hospital
Helsefondon

Keywords

Aortic valve calcification
Infectious endocarditis
noncontrast CT

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Krasniqi, L., Diederichsen, A. C. P., Lindholt, J. S., Ravn, E. J., Skovbo, J. S., Obel, L., Riber, L. P., Haujir, A., Gerke, O., Busk, M., Frost, L., Lambrechtsen, J., Karon, M., Tofterup, M., Ovrehus, K., & Dahl, J. S. (2025). Aortic Valve Calcification and the Risk of Infective Endocarditis: Insights From the DANCAVAS Trial. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 86(15), 1142-1145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2025.08.024

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