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2487956

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-4-11
pubmed:abstractText
We analyzed the clinical and echocardiographic features of 24 patients with infective endocarditis followed for a mean of 20.2 month (range 3-84) after discharge. Mean age was 38 years, male to female ratio was 2:1 and 87% of cases had a subacute clinical course; 17% of patients had late prosthetic endocarditis. Positive blood cultures were obtained in only 50% of patients. Vegetations were detected by echocardiography in 88%, 66% of them located at the aortic valve. Heart failure (62%) was the main complication, leading to valve replacement in 4 patients. Four patients died during follow up, 3 males due to heart failure and a female from systemic emboli. Twenty patients survive at the end of follow up (84%), 50% of them in FC I or II, 40% in FC III or IV (2 lost to follow up). Eleven patients had a late echocardiogram at a mean of 12 months after discharge: 6 of them showed persistence of vegetations (55%).
pubmed:language
spa
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0034-9887
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
117
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
167-73
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
[Infectious endocarditis: clinical and echocardiographic initial follow-up].
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract