Epidemiological and clinical profile of infective endocarditis at a Brazilian tertiary care center: an eight-year prospective study.
Paulo Vieira DamascoJulio Cesar Delgado CorrealAna Carolina Da Cruz-CamposBruno Reznik WajsbrotRodrigo Guimarães da CunhaAloysio Guimarães da FonsecaMárcia Bueno CastierClaudio Querido FortesJoão Carlos JazbickElba Regina Sampaio de LemosJohn Wilhelmus RossenRobson de Souza LeãoRaphael Hirata JuniorAna Luíza de Mattos GuaraldiPublished in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2019)
In multivariate analysis, chronic renal failure (relative risk [RR]= 1.60; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.01-2.55), septic shock (RR= 2.19; 95% CI 1.499-3.22), and age over 60 years (RR= 2.28; 95% CI 1.44-3.59) were indirectly associated with in-hospital mortality. The best prognosis was related to the performance of cardiovascular surgery (hazard ratio [HR]= 0.51; 95% CI 0.26-0.99).