Clinical features and outcomes of infective endocarditis in Egypt: an 11-year experience at a tertiary care facility.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few data are available on the characteristics of infective endocarditis (IE) cases in Egypt. The aim of this work is to describe the characteristics and outcomes of IE patients and evaluate the temporal changes in IE diagnostic and therapeutic aspects over 11 years.

Results

The IE registry included 398 patients referred to the Endocarditis Unit of a tertiary care facility with the diagnosis of possible or definite IE. Patients were recruited over two periods; period 1 (n = 237, 59.5%) from February 2005 to December 2011 and period 2 (n = 161, 40.5%) from January 2012 to September 2016. An electronic database was constructed to include information on patients' clinical and microbiological characteristics as well as complications and mortality. The median age was 30

SUBMITTER: Rizk HH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6821432 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature