Research Article
Usefulness of Anticoagulant Therapy in the Prevention of Embolic Complications in Patients with Acute Infective Endocarditis
Table 1
Embolic complications of IE patients.
| | | At admission
| During antibiotic therapy
| Total |
| | Any embolism | 43 (28.7) | 21 (14.0) | 57 (38.0) | | Cerebrovascular events | 30 (20.0) | 15 (10.0) | 45 (30.0) | | Brain infarct | 28 (18.7) | 14 (9.3) | 42 (28.0) | | ICH | 9 (6.0) | 6 (4.0) | 15 (10.0) | | PICH | 4 (2.7) | 3 (2.0) | 7 (4.7) | | SAH | 1 (0.7) | 1 (0.7) | 2 (1.3) | | HI | 4 (2.7) | 2 (1.3) | 6 (4.0) | | Mycotic aneurysm | — | 1 (0.7) | 1 (0.7) | | Meningitis | 1 (0.7) | — | 1 (0.7) | | Splenic infarct | 7 (4.7) | 2 (1.3) | 9 (6.0) | | Renal infarct | 5 (3.3) | 1 (0.7) | 6 (4.0) | | MI | 3 (2.0) | 2 (1.3) | 5 (3.3) | | Pulmonary embolism | 1 (0.7) | 2 (1.3) | 2 (1.3) | | Peripheral artery embolism | 4 (2.7) | 3 (2.0) | 6 (4.0) | | Spondylitis | 3 (2.0) | — | 3 (2.0) |
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ICH: intracranial hemorrhage; PICH: primary intracerebral hemorrhage; SAH: subarachnoid hemorrhage; HI: hemorrhagic infarct; MI: myocardial infarction.
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