Cardiac and extracardiac complications in both types of infective endocarditis in a series of 138 cases in non-drug addict patients
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NVE n = 95 (%) |
PVE n = 95 (%) | p Value | |
| Heart failure | 38 (40) | 18 (42) | NS |
| Embolisms | 30 (32) | 12 (28) | NS |
| CNS complications | 20 (21) | 8 (19) | NS |
| Persistent sepsis | 18 (19) | 8 (19) | NS |
| Renal failure | 12 (13) | 5 (12) | NS |
| Metastasic abscesses | 13 (14) | 3 (7) | NS |
| Mycotic aneuryms | 4 (4) | 4 (9) | NS |
| Inmunologic disorders4-150 | 74 (78) | 28 (65) | NS |
↵4-150 Includes glomerulonephritis (10 cases), cutaneous vasculitis (7 cases) and altered inmunologic parameters (raised rheumatoid factor and circulating immune complexes levels, and low C3 and C4 concentrations)
NS, not significant; CNS, central nervous system.