Blood culture-negative infective endocarditis : a worse outcome? Results from a large multicentre retrospective Spanish cohort study

BACKGROUND: To assess the impact of blood cultures negative infective endocarditis (BCNIE) on in-hospital mortality.

METHODS: Prospective multicentre study with retrospective analysis of a Spanish cohort including adult patients with definite IE. Cardiac implantable devices infection were excluded. Comparisons between blood cultures positive and BCNIE groups were performed to analyse in-hospital mortality.

RESULTS: 1001 cases were included of which 83 (8.3%) had BCNIE. Alternative microbiological diagnosis was achieved for 39 (47%) out 83 cases. The most frequent identifications were: Coxiella burnetii (11; 28.2%), Tropheryma whipplei (4; 10.3%), Streptococcus gallolyticus (4;10.3%) and Staphylococcus epidermidis (3; 7.7%). Surgery was performed more frequently in BCNIE group (57.8 vs. 36.9%, p < .001). All-cause in-hospital mortality rate was 26.7% without statistical difference between compared groups. BCNIE was not associated to worse mortality rate in Cox regression model (aHR = 1.37, 95% CI 0.90-2.07, p = .14). Absence of microbiological diagnosis was also not associated to worse in-hospital prognosis (aHR = 1.62, 95% CI 0.99-2.64, p = .06).

CONCLUSIONS: In our cohort, BCNIE was not associated to greater in-hospital mortality based in multivariate Cox regression models. The variables most frequently associated with mortality were indicated but not performed surgery (aHR = 2.48, 95% CI 1.73-3.56, p < .001), septic shock (aHR = 2.24, 95% CI 1.68-2.99, p < .001), age over 65 years (aHR = 1.88, 95% CI 1.40-2.52, p < .001) and complicated endocarditis (aHR = 1.79, 95% CI 1.36-2.37, p < .001).

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Infect Dis (Lond). 2023 Jan;55(1):67-70. - PMID 36082839

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:53

Enthalten in:

Infectious diseases (London, England) - 53(2021), 10 vom: 01. Okt., Seite 755-763

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Suardi, Lorenzo Roberto [VerfasserIn]
de Alarcón, Arístides [VerfasserIn]
García, María Victoria [VerfasserIn]
Ciezar, Antonio Plata [VerfasserIn]
Hidalgo Tenorio, Carmen [VerfasserIn]
Martinez-Marcos, Francisco Javier [VerfasserIn]
Concejo-Martínez, Elena [VerfasserIn]
De la Torre Lima, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Vinuesa García, David [VerfasserIn]
Luque Márquez, Rafael [VerfasserIn]
Ojeda, Guillermo [VerfasserIn]
Reguera Iglesias, José M [VerfasserIn]
Lomas, José M [VerfasserIn]
Lopez-Cortes, Luis E [VerfasserIn]
Grupo para el Estudio de las Infecciones Cardiovasculares de la Sociedad Andaluza de Enfermedades Infecciosas (GEICV-SAEI) [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Blood cultures
Diagnosis
Infective endocarditis
Journal Article
Mortality
Multicenter Study
Negative

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Date Completed 20.08.2021

Date Revised 09.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Infect Dis (Lond). 2023 Jan;55(1):67-70. - PMID 36082839

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/23744235.2021.1925342

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM325872481