Table 3.

Successful only medical therapy and refusal surgery in aortic valve endocarditis.

Variable	Group of only medical therapy (I) (n = 64)	Group of cardiac surgery (II) (n = 512)	Group of refusal surgery (III) (n = 96)	P value (I vs. II)	P value (I vs. III)	P value (II vs. III)
Male, n	48 (75%)	352 (71%)	71 (74%)	0.458	0.882	0.471
Age, years	42.4 ± 2.1	40.9 ± 0.7	49.3 ± 0.9	0.452	0.005	<0.001
Body weight, kg	55.6 ± 1.4	54.7 ± 0.5	57.0 ± 1.0	0.539	0.891	0.054
Time between symptoms and admission, months	0.54 ± 0.04	2.7 ± 0.2	1.65 ± 0.1	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Vegetation length, mm	5.0 ± 0.2	10.4 ± 0.9	13.83 ± 0.33	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001