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Table 1 Neurologic complications of IE and outcome in nine series

From: Management of neurological complications of infective endocarditis in ICU patients

Author, yr

(reference)

Setting, country

No. of IE

Patients with CNS complications, n (%)

Embolic events, n, (%)

Overall mortality (%)

Mortality of patients with CNS complications (%)

Cardiac surgery in patients with CNS complications, n (%)

Salgado, 1989

[47]

175

64 (36.5)

27 (42)

13.6

20.6

NR

One institution USA

      

Roder, 1997

[40]

260

91 (35)

 

56

74

81 (89)

63 hospitals, Denmark

      

Heiro, 2000

[3]

218

55 (25)

23 (42)

14

24

15 (27)

One institution Finland

      

Anderson, 2003

[16]

707

68 (9.6)

49 (72)

NR

52 (1-yr)

13 (19)

One referral center USA

      

Mourvillier, 2004

[7]

228

84 (37)

31 (37)

45 (in-hospital)

57

104 (46)

2 referral centers

      

France

      

Ruttmann, 2006

[30]

214

65 (30)

61 (94)

21

17 (median follow-up: 5.9 yr)

65 (100)

Cardiac surgery

      

Austria

      

Corral, 2007

[42]

550

71 (13)

42 (60)

11

34

26 (41)

One institution

      

Spain

      

Thuny, 2007

[8]

496

109 (22)

80 (73)

16 (6-mo)

22 (6-mo)

63 (58)

2 referral centers

   

19 (1-yr)

25 (1-yr)

 

France

   

31 (5-yr)

38 (5-yr)

 

Sonneville, 2011

[13]

198

108 (55)

79 (73)

57 (3-mo)

58 (3-mo)

53 (49)

23 ICUs

      

France

      
  1. NR, not reported.