Research Article
Microbiological and Clinicoepidemiological Profile of a Series of Patients with Infective Endocarditis at a Center in Eastern Nepal
Table 1
Summary of clinical profiles of IE patients (n = 17).
| Variables | Number (%) |
| Gender | Male | 14 (82.4) | Female | 3 (17.6) |
| Clinical features | Fever | 16 (94.1) | Murmur | 14 (82.4) | Malaise | 12 (70.6) | Shortness of breath | 11 (64.7) | Clubbing | 10 (58.8) | Pallor | 9 (52.9) | Arthralgia | 8 (47) | Cough | 7 (41.2) | History of weight loss | 7 (41.2) | Splenomegaly | 6 (35.3) | Chest pain | 3 (17.6) | Petechiae | 2 (11.8) | Seizure | 1 (5.9) | Septic emboli | 1 (5.9) | Splinter hemorrhage | 1 (5.9) |
| Age groups in years | 0–20 | 1 (5.9) | 20–40 | 7 (41.1) | 40–60 | 6 (35.3) | >60 | 3 (17.6) |
| Potential risk factors | Rheumatic heart disease | 7 (41.1) | Intravenous drug abuse | 4 (23.5) | Cardiomyopathy | 2 (11.8) | Bicuspid aortic valve | 2 (11.8) | Situs inversus dextrocardia | 1 (5.9) | Risk factor unknown | 1 (5.9) |
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