Clinical Features and Outcome of Infective Endocarditis in a University Hospital in Romania.
Conclusions: Staphylococcus aureus IE was associated with the presence of large vegetations, prosthetic valve endocarditis and intracardiac abscess. Coagulase negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) infection was associated with prosthetic valve dysfunction. Streptococcus gallolyticus etiology correlated with ischemic embolic stroke and the presence of large vegetations. Cardiovascular surgery was recommended in 67.4% of patients but was performed only on half of them. In hospital death occurred in 33.7% of patients and independent predictors of mortality were congestive heart failure and septic shock.
PMID: 33578787 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Medicina (Kaunas) - Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Babeș EE, Lucuța DA, Petcheși CD, Zaha AA, Ilyes C, Jurca AD, Vesa CM, Zaha DC, Babeș VV Tags: Medicina (Kaunas) Source Type: research
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