Trends in Drug Use-Associated Infective Endocarditis and Heart Valve Surgery, 2007 to 2017: A Study of Statewide Discharge Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drug use-associated infective endocarditis (DUA-IE) is increasing as a result of the opioid epidemic. Infective endocarditis may require valve surgery, but surgical treatment of DUA-IE has invoked controversy, and the extent of its use is unknown.

Objective

To examine hospitalization trends for DUA-IE, the proportion of hospitalizations with surgery, patient characteristics, length of stay, and charges.

Design

10-year analysis of a statewide hospital discharge database.

Setting

North Carolina hospitals, 2007 to 2017.

Patients

All patients aged 18 years or older hospitalized for IE.

Measurements

Annual trends in all IE admissions and in IE hospitalizations with valve surgery, stratified by patients' drug use status. Characteristics of DU

SUBMITTER: Schranz AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6548681 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature