Research Article
Microbiological and Clinicoepidemiological Profile of a Series of Patients with Infective Endocarditis at a Center in Eastern Nepal
Table 5
Complications and outcome of IE patients (n = 17).
| Complications | Number (%) | Outcome of patients | Number (%) |
| Acute kidney injury (AKI) | 3 (17.6) | Improved | 10 (58.8) | Congestive cardiac failure (CCF) | 1 (5.9) | Not improved/referred | 3 (17.6) | Septic pulmonary emboli | 1 (5.9) | Mortality | 2 (11.8) | Cerebrovascular accident | 3 (17.6) | Leaving against medical advice | 2 (11.8) | AKI with CCF | 3 (17.6) | | | UGI bleeding | 1 (5.9) | | | No complications | 5 (29.5) | | |
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Referred to other medical centers due to lack of ICU beds and need of ventilatory support. |