Epidemiological Profile of Patients with Infective Endocarditis at three Tertiary Centers in Brazil from 2003 to 2017
| Autor: | Renato Lott Bezerra, Lucas Sousa Salgado, Yago Machado da Silva, Gustavo Guimarães Rocha Figueiredo, Raimundo Matos Bezerra, Eduardo Luís Guimarães Machado, Isabel Cristina Gomes, Ângelo Geraldo José Cunha |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences v.35 n.4 2022 International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) instacron:SBC International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences, Volume: 35, Issue: 4, Pages: 467-475, Published: 07 JAN 2022 International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences, Issue: ahead, Published: 07 JAN 2022 |
| Popis: | Background Infective endocarditis (IE) is a disease with high morbimortality and an increasing incidence. With improved diagnosis and treatment, a number of epidemiological changes have been reported over time. Objectives We sought to describe the epidemiological profile, mortality predictors, and analysis of a possible microbiological transition in patients admitted to three tertiary centers in Brazil. Methods In this cross-sectional retrospective study, data from 211 patients with definite or probable IE were analyzed according to the modified Duke criteria between 2003 and 2017. The association between categorical variables was assessed using the chi-square or Fisher's exact test, and binary logistic models were built to investigate mortality. We considered p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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