Research Article

Microbiological and Clinicoepidemiological Profile of a Series of Patients with Infective Endocarditis at a Center in Eastern Nepal

Table 6

Complications of patients with respect to the causative agents of IE (n = 17).

Causative agent (n)Complications
Present, n (%)Absent, n (%)

S. aureus (4)4 (23.5)0 (0.0)
E. faecalis (1)0 (0.0)1 (5.9)
E. faecium (2)1 (5.9)1 (5.9)
P. aeruginosa (1)1 (5.9)0 (0.0)
Mixed growth (1) (S. aureus + E. faecalis)1 (5.9)0 (0.0)
Culture negative (8)5 (29.4)3 (17.6)