STUDY OF HEALTH CARE RELATED INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS: ‎ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL CRITERIA AND PATIENTS OUTCOMES

Document Type : Preliminary preprint short reports of original research

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1 Cardiology and Angiology Departments, Alexandria University, Faculty of Medicine, Egypt

2 Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University

3 Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt.

4 Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Faculty of Medicine, ‎Alexandria ‎University

Abstract

INTRODUCTION:‎
Healthcare-related infective endocarditis is (HCRIE) is a serious health problem that ‎has several impacts on healthcare services. It is associated with high incidence of ‎morbidity and mortality. HCRIE constitutes up to 10-34% of total IE cases. The ‎incidence of HCRIE continues to increase because of ultimate increase in using invasive ‎diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in health care settings, increase in degenerative ‎valve pathology in the elderly, also increased rate of cardiac interventions in the form of ‎prosthetic valve replacement and implantation of other cardiac devices as pacemakers & ‎ICDs.‎

AIM OF THE STUDY:‎
The aim of the study was to register cases of healthcare-related infective endocarditis ‎presented to Alexandria main University Hospital and identify their common risk ‎factors, clinical characteristics and outcomes.‎

SUBJECTS AND METHODS:‎
Our studyprospectively enrolled 52 patients with HCRIE. All patients were subjected ‎to detailed history taking, clinical examination, resting electrocardiography (ECG), ‎echocardiography and several laboratory investigations.‎

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