Table 3.

Clinical features of blood culture negative endocarditis

Feature	Native valve (n=48)	Prosthetic valve (n=15)
Fever
≥38–<39°C	24 (50%)	6 (40%)
≥39°C	9 (19%)	3 (20%)
Absent	8 (17%)	3 (20%)
Not known	7 (15%)	3 (20%)
Cerebral emboli	10 (21%)	2 (13%)
Splinter haemorrhages	9 (19%)	3 (20%)
Haematuria	8 (17%)	4 (27%)
Splenomegaly	7 (15%)	4 (27%)
“Rash”	6 (13%)
Clubbing	5 (10%)
Pulmonary emboli	4 (8%)
Peripheral emboli	2 (4%)	1 (7%)
Subconjunctival haemorrhage	2 (4%)
Osler’s nodes	2 (4%)
No immunological/vascular features	14 (29%)