P.063 The evolving epidemiology of infective endocarditis at St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital

920Retrospective Analysis of Infective Endocarditis at an Urban Hospital

Guepar total knee prosthesis. Experience at the Vancouver General Hospital.

Eighty-three Guepar valgus-hinge prostheses and 30 prostheses with collinear femoral and the tibial components were inserted in 97 patients at Vancouver General Hospital between March 1975 and May 1978. One hundred and nine arthroplasties were reviewed between January 1979 and April 1980, after an average follow-up of 19 months. It was found that the amount of bone resected made arthrodesis dif...

Hospital-acquired infective endocarditis: should the definition be broadened?

Hospital-acquired infective endocarditis (IE) is a growing health-care problem. Hospital-acquired IE, according to the commonly used definition, is IE manifesting > or =72 h after admission to the hospital or within several weeks after a hospital-based invasive procedure. To assess the validity of this definition, we evaluated 87 episodes of IE, with special attention to recent hospitalizations...

Infective endocarditis; report from a main referral teaching hospital in Iran

Background/Objective: The aim of the present preliminary study was to assess the demographic, clinical, paraclinical, microbiological, echocardiographic, and therapeutic profile as well as in-hospital outcome of patients with infective endocarditis at a referral center for various infectious diseases in Iran.Methods: Required demographic, clinical, plausible complications and paraclinical data ...

Early predictors of in-hospital death in infective endocarditis.

BACKGROUND Data on early determinants of outcome in infective endocarditis (IE) are limited. We evaluated the prognostic significance of early clinical characteristics in a large, prospective cohort of patients with IE. METHODS AND RESULTS Two hundred sixty-seven consecutive patients with definite or possible IE by modified Duke criteria and echocardiography performed within 7 days of present...