Table 2 Therapeutic strategies and mortality of patients with infective endocarditis, by presence of cerebral embolism
Cerebral embolism | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
No (N = 425) | Yes (N = 126) | ||
Treatment (N, %) | |||
Excluded from surgery despite indication | 40 (9.5%) | 20 (15.8%) | 0.002 |
Surgery | 329 (77.4%) | 102 (81.0%) | |
No indication for surgery | 56 (13.1%) | 4 (3.2%) | |
Thirty-day mortality (N, %) | 36 (8.5%) | 13 (10.3%) | NS |
Three-year mortality (N, %) | 135 (31.8%) | 48 (38.1%) | NS |