Fernández-Cruz, AnaMuñoz, PatriciaSandoval, CarmenFariñas, CarmenGutiérrez-Cuadra, ManuelPericás Pulido, Juan MMiró, José MGoenaga-Sánchez, Miguel Áde Alarcón, ArístidesBonache-Bernal, FranciscoRodríguez, MªÁngelesNoureddine, MariamBouza Santiago, EmilioSpanish Collaboration on Endocarditis (GAMES)2023-01-252023-01-252017http://hdl.handle.net/10668/11596The aim of the study was to draw a comparison between the characteristics of infective endocarditis (IE) in patients with cancer and those of IE in noncancer patients.Patients with IE, according to the modified Duke criteria, were prospectively included in the GAMES registry between January 2008 and February 2014 in 30 hospitals. Patients with active cancer were compared with noncancer patients.During the study period, 161 episodes of IE fulfilled the inclusion criteria. We studied 2 populations: patients whose cancer was diagnosed before IE (73.9%) and those whose cancer and IE were diagnosed simultaneously (26.1%). The latter more frequently had community-acquired IE (67.5% vs 26.4%, P enAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/AgedCross InfectionEndocarditisFemaleHospital MortalityHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasmsProspective StudiesRisk FactorsSex Factorsresearch article28930826open access10.1097/MD.00000000000079131536-5964PMC5617693https://doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000007913https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5617693/pdf