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Table 4 Surgery and survival according to baseline CT scan categories

From: Cerebrovascular complications and outcomes of critically ill adult patients with infective endocarditis

Characteristics

Total (n = 156)

normal CT (n = 67)

Moderate-to-severe ischemic stroke (n = 33)

Minor ischemic stroke (n = 29)

Cerebral hemorrhage (n = 24)

p (4 group comparison)

Emergency/urgent surgical indication

136 (87%)

56 (83%)

29 (88%)

27 (93%)

21 (88%)

0.67

Patients operated

108 (79%)

46 (69%)

23 (70%)

21 (72%)

16 (67%)

0.98

ICU mortality

64 (41%)

25 (37%)

17 (51%)

14 (48%)

7 (29%)

0.4

1-year mortality

80 (51%)

33 (49%)

21 (64%)

16 (55%)

9 (38%)

0.3

Including neurological causes

26/80 (33%)

3/33 (9%)

13/21 (62%)

4/16 (25%)

5/9 (56%)

 < 0.01

Including sepsis or septic shock

36/80 (45%)

23/33 (70%)

2/21 (10%)

8/16 (50%)

3/9 (33%)

 < 0.01

Including heart failure

11/80 (14%)

4/33 (12%)

4/21 (19%)

2/16 (13%)

1/9 (11%)

0.9

  1. Data concerning the 3 patients with “other abnormal CT” are not shown here due to small number