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## Objective: Seventy-seven cases of native valve infective endocarditis as determined by the duke criteria, were reviewed to determine the incidence and clinical features of multi-valvular endocarditis. ## Methods: Fourteen of 77 patients (18%) had multi-valvular endocarditis most commonly involving the mitral and aortic valves. staphylococcus aureus (43%) and viridans streptococci (36%) were the most common organisms causing multi-valvular endocarditis. ## Results: Definite or probable vegetations were found in 50% of the patients by two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiograph and/or transesophageal echocardiograph, and possible vegetations were detected in 21%. the overall mortality in our series was 21%; 29% underwent valve replacement and 50% were treated medically. the major complications of multi-valvular endocarditis were congestive heart failure (64%), acute renal failure (50%), embolic events (21%), and splenic abscess/infarcts (21%). ## Conclusions: Our data suggests complications of multi-valvular endocarditis, compared with uni-valvular endocarditis are similar except for heart failure. heart failure is statistically more common in multi-valvular endocarditis (p < or

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Author

N. Kim; J. M. Lazar; B. A. Cunha; W. Liao; V. Minnaganti

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Elsevier ; Elsevier Limited; Elsevier BV; Test accounts (ISSN 1198-743X)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)