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Clinical features and outcomes of infective endocarditis in Egypt: an 11-year experience at a tertiary care facility.


ABSTRACT:

Background

Few data are available on the characteristics of infective endocarditis (IE) cases in Egypt. The aim of this work is to describe the characteristics and outcomes of IE patients and evaluate the temporal changes in IE diagnostic and therapeutic aspects over 11 years.

Results

The IE registry included 398 patients referred to the Endocarditis Unit of a tertiary care facility with the diagnosis of possible or definite IE. Patients were recruited over two periods; period 1 (n = 237, 59.5%) from February 2005 to December 2011 and period 2 (n = 161, 40.5%) from January 2012 to September 2016. An electronic database was constructed to include information on patients' clinical and microbiological characteristics as well as complications and mortality. The median age was 30 years and rheumatic valvular heart disease was the commonest underlying cardiac disease (34.7%). Healthcare-associated IE affected 185 patients (46.5%) and 275 patients (69.1%) had negative blood cultures. The most common complications were heart failure (n = 148, 37.2%), peripheral embolization (n = 133, 33.4%), and severe sepsis (n = 100, 25.1%). In-hospital mortality occurred in 108 patients (27.1%). Period 2 was characterized by a higher prevalence of injection drug use-associated IE (15.5% vs. 7.2%, p = 0.008), a higher staphylococcal IE (50.0% vs. 35.7%, p = 0.038), lower complications (31.1% vs. 45.1%, p = 0.005), and a lower in-hospital mortality (19.9% vs. 32.1%, p = 0.007).

Conclusion

This Egyptian registry showed high rates of culture-negative IE, complications, and in-hospital mortality in a largely young population of patients. Improvements were noted in the rates of complications and mortality in the second half of the reporting period.

SUBMITTER: Rizk HH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6821432 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Clinical features and outcomes of infective endocarditis in Egypt: an 11-year experience at a tertiary care facility.

Rizk Hussein Hassan HH   Elamragy Ahmed Adel AA   Youssef Ghada Sayed GS   Meshaal Marwa Sayed MS   Samir Ahmad A   ElSharkawy Ahmed A   Said Karim K   Kassem Hussien Heshmat HH   Elanany Mervat Gaber MG   El-Kholy Amani Ali AA   Akl Al Sayed AS   Mahfouz Soheir M SM   Sorour Khaled Ali KA  

The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology 20190911 1


<h4>Background</h4>Few data are available on the characteristics of infective endocarditis (IE) cases in Egypt. The aim of this work is to describe the characteristics and outcomes of IE patients and evaluate the temporal changes in IE diagnostic and therapeutic aspects over 11 years.<h4>Results</h4>The IE registry included 398 patients referred to the Endocarditis Unit of a tertiary care facility with the diagnosis of possible or definite IE. Patients were recruited over two periods; period 1 (  ...[more]

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