Volume 23, Number 11—November 2017
Research Letter
Blood Culture–Negative Endocarditis, Morocco
Najma Boudebouch
, M’hammed Sarih, Abdelfattah Chakib, Salma Fadili, Drissi Boumzebra, Zahira Zouizra, Badie Azamane Mahadji, Hamid Amarouch, Didier Raoult, and Pierre-Edouard Fournier
, M’hammed Sarih, Abdelfattah Chakib, Salma Fadili, Drissi Boumzebra, Zahira Zouizra, Badie Azamane Mahadji, Hamid Amarouch, Didier Raoult, and Pierre-Edouard Fournier
Table
Demographic and clinical features of patients with blood culture–negative endocarditis included in the study.*
| Features |
Value |
% Patients |
|---|---|---|
| Sex | ||
| M | 11 | 61% |
| F | 7 | 38% |
| Unspecified |
1 |
|
| Mean age, y |
40.26 |
|
| Valve involved | ||
| Native valve | 18/19 | 94.7 |
| Valvular bioprosthesis | 1/19 | 5.3 |
| Aortic | 4/17 | 23.5 |
| Mitral | 10/17 | 58.8 |
| Aortic and mitral | 1/17 | 5.9 |
| Tricuspid |
1/17 |
5.9 |
| Echocardiographic signs of endocarditis | ||
| Left-sided endocarditis | 2/17 | 11.8 |
| Right-sided endocarditis | 10/17 | 58.8 |
| Pacemaker infection |
1/17 |
5.9 |
| Valvular vegetation | 12/17 | 70.6 |
| Valvular abscess |
6/17 |
35.9 |
| Clinical symptoms | ||
| Fever (temperature >38.5°C) | 17/17 | 100 |
| Cardiac murmur | 16/17 | 94.1 |
| Glomerulonephritis |
1/17 |
5.9 |
| Other data | ||
| Drug abuse | 1/17 | 5.9 |
| Alcohol dependence | 3/17 | 17.6 |
*Values are no. patients/no. for which data were available except as indicated.
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