Research Article
Microbiological and Clinicoepidemiological Profile of a Series of Patients with Infective Endocarditis at a Center in Eastern Nepal
Table 2
Size and site of vegetation detected by echocardiography in IE patients (n = 17).
| Variables | Number (%) |
| Size of vegetation | Size of ≥10 mm | 9 (52.9) | Size of ≥20 mm | 1 (5.9) | Mobile vegetation | 5 (29.4) | No vegetation | 2 (11.8) |
| Site of vegetation | Aortic valve | 6 (35.3) | Mitral valve | 3 (17.6) | Tricuspid valve | 3 (17.6) | Aortic + mitral valves | 2 (11.8) | Pulmonary valve | 1 (5.9) | No vegetation | 2 (11.8) |
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