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 | PMC:PMC7916483 | DOI:10.3390/medicina57020158

Source: Medicina (Kaunas) - February 13, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Emilia Elena Babe ș Diana Anca Lucu ța Codru ța Diana Petcheși Andreea Atena Zaha Cristian Ilyes Alexandru Daniel Jurca Cosmin Mihai Vesa Dana Carmen Zaha Vlad Victor Babe ș Source Type: research