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Table 4 Manifestations detected by echocardiography among patients with IDU-IE and non-IDU-IE

From: Patients with infective endocarditis and history of injection drug use in a Swedish referral hospital during 10 years

All manifestations

IDU-IE

(n = 165 (100%))

Non-IDU-IE

(n = 287 (80%))

P value

Aortic valve vegetation

33 (20)

171 (48)

<  0.01

Mitral valve vegetation

47 (28)

162 (45)

<  0.01

Tricuspid valve vegetation

91 (55)

23 (6)

<  0.01

Pulmonary valve vegetation

7 (4)

2 (1)

<  0.01

CIED-associated IE

1 (1)

25 (7)

< 0.01

Abscess

4 (2)

27 (8)

0.03

Multiple valve vegetations

 Aortic and mitral valve vegetation

11 (7)

31 (9)

0.43

 Aortic and tricuspid valve vegetation

5 (3)

3 (1)

 

 Aortic and pulmonary valve vegetation

1 (1)

0 (0)

 

 Mitral and tricuspid valve vegetation

5 (3)

5 (1)

 

 Mitral and pulmonary valve vegetation

1 (1)

0 (0)

 

 Tricuspid and pulmonary valve vegetation

4 (2)

1 (0)

 

 CIED and tricuspid valve vegetation

0 (0)

6 (2)

 
  1. Among the patients listed with, for instance, aortic valve vegetation, some patients had vegetations also on other valves and thus were listed also under the topic “multiple valve vegetations”. Significant P values are marked in bold font. Abbreviations: CIED cardiovascular implantable electronic device; IDU injection drug use, IE infective endocarditis
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