Table 1 Characteristics of study population
Patient | Age-range (10 yr) | Gender | Valvulopathy/prosthetic valve | Diagnosis at ED discharge | Number of positive blood cultures (n) | Echocardiographic findings of infective endocarditis | Predisposing factors | Fever > 38 °C | Vascular phenomena | Immunologic phenomena | Infective endocarditis localization | Vegetation’s size (mm)a | Site of infection | Surgical indication | Mortality at day 60 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 20–30 | F | Appendicitis | 2 | X | X | Mitral | UNK | |||||||
2 | 30–40 | F | Endocarditis | 11 | X | X | X | Mitral | UNK | Skin | X | X | |||
3 | 40–50 | M | Sepsis | 2 | X | X | X | Aortic | UNK | ||||||
4 | – | M | Epigastralgia | UNK | X | X | Mitral, Aortic | UNK | Skin | ||||||
5 | – | M | Fever | UNK | X | X | X | Mitral, Aortic, Tricuspid | UNK | Skin | X | ||||
6 | 50–60 | M | Septic shock of UNK origin | 6 | X | X | Aortic | UNK | X | ||||||
7 | – | M | X | Septic shock of UNK origin | 6 | X | X | X | Tricuspid | UNK | Skin | X | |||
8 | – | M | Peritonitis | 7 | X | X | Mitral | 23 | X | ||||||
9 | – | M | X | Endocarditis | 9 | X | X | X | X | Mitral | UNK | X | |||
10 | – | F | Meningitis | 10 | X | X | Mitral | 13 | Skin | ||||||
11 | – | M | X | Endocarditis | 5 | X | X | X | X | Mitral | 15 | X | |||
12 | – | F | Pyelonephritis | UNK | X | X | X | Mitral | 7 | ||||||
13 | – | M | Septic shock of UNK origin | 4 | X | X | X | Mitral | 12 | Skin | X | ||||
14 | 60–70 | M | X | Sepsis | 2 | X | X | X | X | X | Mitral | 20 | |||
15 | – | M | X | Chronic heart failure | 4 | X | X | X | Mitral | UNK | Skin | X | |||
16 | – | M | X | Endocarditis | 2 | X | X | X | X | X | Mitral | 13 | Skin | X | |
17 | – | M | X | Prostatitis | 4 | X | X | X | X | Mitral | 18 | Skin | X | X | |
18 | 70–80 | F | X | Pneumonia | 2 | X | X | X | Mitral | UNK | X | X | |||
19 | – | M | Thoracic pain | 3 | X | Tricuspid | 35 | Skin | X | ||||||
20 | – | F | X | Endocarditis | 2 | X | X | X | X | Mitral | UNK | Joint | X | ||
21 | – | M | Dyspnea | 2 | X | X | Mitral | 10 | Skin | X | |||||
22 | – | F | Diverticulitis | 2 | X | X | X | X | Mitral | 23 | Joint | X | |||
23 | – | M | Pneumonia | 2 | X | X | Mitral | UNK | Skin | X | |||||
24 | – | M | X | Asthenia | 2 | X | X | Mitral | 15 | Skin | |||||
25 | 80–90 | F | Low back pain | 4 | X | X | X | Mitral | UNK | Skin | X | ||||
26 | – | F | Erysipelas | 4 | X | X | X | X | Aortic | 13 | |||||
27 | – | M | Dyspnea | 4 | X | X | Mitral, Aortic | 8 | X |