%0 Journal Article
%A Álvarez-Zaballos, Sara
%A González-Ramallo, Victor
%A Quintana, Eduard
%A Muñoz, Patricia
%A de la Villa-Martínez, Sofía
%A Fariñas, M Carmen
%A Arnáiz-de Las Revillas, Francisco
%A de Alarcón, Arístides
%A Rodríguez-Esteban, M Ángeles
%A Miró, José M
%A Goenaga, Miguel Angel
%A Goikoetxea-Agirre, Josune
%A García-Vázquez, Elisa
%A Boix-Palop, Lucía
%A Martínez-Sellés, Manuel
%A On Behalf Of Games,
%T Multivalvular Endocarditis: A Rare Condition with Poor Prognosis.
%D 2022
%@ 2077-0383
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/21333
%X Background. Infective endocarditis (IE) is a severe condition. Our aim was to describe the profile and prognosis of patients with multivalvular infective endocarditis (MIE) and compare them to single-valve IE (SIE). Methods. We used a retrospective analysis of the Spanish IE Registry (2008−2020). Results. From 4064 definite cases of valvular IE, 577 (14.2%) had MIE. In patients with MIE, the most common locations were mitral (552, 95.7%) and aortic (550, 95.3%), with mitral-aortic involvement present in 507 patients (87.9%). The most common etiologies were S. viridans (192, 33.3%) and S. aureus (113, 19.6%). MIE involved only native valves in 450 patients (78.0%). Compared with patients with SIE, patients with MIE had a similar age (69 vs. 67 years, respectively, p = 0.27) and similar baseline characteristics, but were more frequently men (67.1% vs. 72.9%, p = 0.005) and had a higher incidence of intracardiac complications (36.2% vs. 50.4%, p
%K infective endocarditis
%K mortality
%K multivalvular endocarditis
%K prognosis
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