Clinical profile of patients hospitalized for infective endocarditis

Objective: to study the modes of presentation,precursor lesions,complications and other clinical parameters related to infective endocarditis. study design: case series place and duration of study: the study was conducted in the department of cardiology and in medical unit 4 at bahawal victoria hospital bahawalpur from 1st april 2010 to 30th september 2012. methodology: the data was collected regarding the symptoms of the disease,its complications,predisposing factors and the site of involvement. all the patients with a possibility of infective endocarditis were subjected to trans-thoraccic echocardiography. blood cultures were also sent. data was analyzed using spss version 10. results: a total of 86 patients were enrolled. in the study population,fever was the most common clinical presentation (87%). mitral valve was the most commonly affected site (55% of patients). most of the patients (77%) were having rheumatic valvular heart disease as the precursor lesion. conclusion: most of the patients presented with fever. the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease and embolic complications was much higher.