Research Article

Inherited Variation in Cytokine, Acute Phase Response, and Calcium Metabolism Genes Affects Susceptibility to Infective Endocarditis

Table 2

Characteristics of the patients with infective endocarditis.

Basic characteristics
Type of infective endocarditisLocationValve involved
Native (93/123, 75.61%)Left-sided (116/123, 94.31%)Aortic (45/123, 36.58%)
Mitral (62/123, 50.41%)
Aortic and mitral (9/123, 7.31%)
Prosthetic (30/123, 24.39%)Right-sided (6/123, 4.88%)Tricuspid (6/123, 4.88%)
Device (0/123, 0.0%)Double-sided (1/123, 0.81%)Mitral and tricuspid (1/123, 0.81%)
Echocardiography characteristics (mean ± standard deviation)
Left atrial diameter, cm4.78 ± 0.90
Left ventricular end-diastolic diameter, cm6.01 ± 1.17
Left ventricular end-systolic diameter, cm3.92 ± 0.76
Left ventricular end-diastolic volume, cm3207.80 ± 93.98
Left ventricular end-systolic volume, cm372.13 ± 36.05
Interventricular septal thickness, cm1.06 ± 0.18
Left ventricular posterior wall thickness, cm1.07 ± 0.19
Left ventricular ejection fraction, %64.00 ± 7.64
Right atrial diameter, cm5.20 ± 1.19
Right ventricular diameter, cm2.51 ± 1.08
Hospital complications
Hydrothorax32/123 (26.02%)
Pneumonia21/123 (17.07%)
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome17/123 (13.82%)
Arrhythmia33/123 (26.83%)
Heart block7/123 (5.69%)
Heart failure46/123 (37.40%)
Myocardial infarction4/123 (3.25%)
Stroke2/123 (1.63%)
Hospital case fatality rate
Death1/123 (0.81%)