masterThesis
Caracterización clínica, microbiológica y ecocardiográfica de pacientes con Endocarditis infecciosa en la Fundación Cardioinfantil 2002-2012
Fecha
2014Autor
Noreña Calvo, Ivan Enrique
Institución
Resumen
Background: Infective endocarditis is an endocardial microbial infection poorly studied in our country that is related with multiple complications with an important mortality burden regardless the epidemiology changes in time, the treatment and the increasing number in valve surgery nowadays. Methods: we search adult patients with diagnosis of infective endocarditis between 2002-2012 in the cardioinfantil foundation clinic for the review of the clinical records to get a clinical, microbiologic and echocardiographic description of this population. Results: we found 144 patients that show a predominant native valve affection and aortic valve lesions with S. aureus as the most frequent isolated bacteria, nevertheless the blood culture was negative in 32.6% of cases; in-hospital mortality was 22.2%. Discussion: our data are similar to the international publications although some variables are discordant as the aortic lesion predominance and the factors related to the tricuspid valve endocarditis. Conclusions: the epidemiology of infective endocarditis in our series was comparable to the international epidemiology of industrialized countries with some little exceptions. We need an implementation and consolidation in the national study of this pathology.