Characteristics of Infective Endocarditis in East China

Zhejiang University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infective Endocarditis

Treatments: Other: no intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04977518

2015-046

Details and patient eligibility

About

This was a retrospective observational study of consecutive cases of definite or possible infective endocarditis (IE) as per the modified Duke criteria between January 2008 and December 2015, which was performed at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, School of medicine (SAHZU), a tertiary care referral hospital located in East China.

Full description

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare but life-threatening serious disease that still has a high mortality, even in developed countries. The objective of this study was to evaluate the clinical presentations, treatment and outcomes of IE patients in a tertiary hospital in East China over an 8-year period. This was a retrospective observational study of consecutive cases of definite or possible IE as per the modified Duke criteria between January 2008 and December 2015.

Enrollment: 183 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with a clinical diagnosis of infective endocarditis.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients did not meet the modified Duke criteria.

Trial design

183 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients diagnosed during 2008-2011

Description:

Patients diagnosed with definite and probable infective endocarditis defined according to the modified Duke clinical criteria during 2008-2011

Treatment:

Other: no intervention

Patients diagnosed during 2012-2015

Description:

Patients diagnosed with definite and probable infective endocarditis defined according to the modified Duke clinical criteria during 2012-2015

Treatment:

Other: no intervention