Usefulness of Anticoagulant Therapy in the Prevention of Embolic Complications in Patients with Acute Infective Endocarditis

Table 3

Comparison of postadmission embolism between patients with and without in-hospital ACT.

	ACT (−); 𝑁=98	ACT (+); 𝑁=52	𝑃 value
Any embolism	14 (14.3)	7 (13.5)	0.890
Any cerebrovascular events	8 (8.2)	7 (13.5)	0.303
Brain infarct	7 (7.1)	7 (13.5)	0.205
ICH	2 (2.0)	4 (7.7)	0.183
In-hospital mortality	18 (18.4)	11 (21.2)	0.681

ACT: anticoagulant therapy; ICH: intracranial hemorrhage.