Immediate and Long-term Prognosis

نویسندگان

  • Pilar Tornos
  • M. D. Esther Sanz
  • M. D. G. Permanyer
چکیده

From 1975 to 1989, 307 consecutive episodes of infective endocarditis were diagnosed in our hospital. Of those, 35 were cases of late prosthetic valve endocarditis, defined as those occurring after 12 months of valvular replacement. Blood cultures grew streptococci in 15 patients (43 percent), staphylococci in seven (20 percent), enterococci in five (14 percent), Gram-negative bacilli of HACEK group in four (11.5 percent), and Candida in one. Blood cultures were negative in three cases (prosthetic infection was confirmed at surgery). Heart failure due to prosthetic dysfunction occurred in seven patients (20 percent) and emboli in 12 (34 percent). Early valvular replacement was performed in six patients (17 percent). Complications and mortality were dependent on the infective agent. Overall mortality was 23 percent, no death occurred from streptococcal infection,

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تاریخ انتشار 2006