[Infectious endocarditis at Ullevål hospital 1988-94. Echocardiographic investigation]

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During a seven-year period (1998-94) 68 patients with infectious endocarditis were diagnosed at a university hospital. Staphylococcus aureus was the most common etiological agent (38%), followed by Streptococcus viridans (21%). In seven patients the diagnosis infectious endocarditis was first made during autopsy, all seven of them had the clinical diagnosis septicaemia. Surgery was performed on 41% of the patients. Case fatality was 34%. Case fatality was significantly higher for S aureus endocarditis than for S viridans endocarditis, 48% vs. 7% (p = 0.01). The advantages of transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis and follow up of patients with infectious endocarditis is emphasized. In spite of these new diagnostic tools a definitive clinical diagnosis of infectious endocarditis was not made for 23% of the patients.

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PUBLICATION TYPE: Journal Article

Journal: Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrif

VOLUME: 118

Page Numbers: 222-5

Journal Abbreviation: Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen.

ISSN: 0029-2001

DAY: 20

MONTH: Jan

YEAR: 1998

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KEYWORDS: Norway

MESH TERMS: epidemiology

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AFFILIATION: Hjertemedisinsk avdeling Medisinsk klinikk Ullevål sykehus Oslo.

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