Table 3.
Univariate analysis of in-hospital-mortality: echocardiographic characteristics, complications and treatment.
| Variable | Alive N = 497 | Deaths N = 208 |
RR | 95% CI | P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duration of symptoms (days) | Mean ± SD | 40.5 ± 84 | 20.3 ± 27.4 | <0.001 | ||
| Septic shock | Yes | 24 (27.9) | 62 (72.1) | 3.05 | 2.51- | <0.001 |
| No | 473 (76.4) | 146 (23.6) | 3.70 | |||
| Severe heart failure | Yes | 101 (57.1) | 76 (42.9) | 1.75 | 1.59- | <0.001 |
| (Admission) | No | 397 (75,1) | 131 (24,9) | 3.25 | ||
| Severe heart failure | Yes | 150 (53.2) | 132 (46.8) | 2.60 | 2.05- | <0.001 |
| (Evolution) | No | 347 (82) | 76 (18) | 3.31 | ||
| Renal insufficiency | Yes | 99 (52.1) | 91 (47.9) | 2.15 | 1.79- | <0.001 |
| No | 397 (77.8) | 113 (22.2) | 2.69 | |||
| Neurologic | Yes | 113 (57.9) | 82 (42.1) | 1.70 | 1.36- | <0.001 |
| manifestations | No | 384 (75.3) | 126 (24.7) | 2.12 | ||
| Perivalvular Extension | Yes | 44 (51.2) | 42 (48.8) | 1.82 | 1.41-2.34 | <0.001 |
| No | 453 (73.2) | 166 (26.8) | ||||
| Vegetations in echocardiography | Present | 362 (68.8) | 164 (31.2) | 1.29 | 0.95- | 0.075 |
| Absent | 133 (75.4) | 44 (24.6) | 1.68 | |||
| Vegetations > 20 mm* | Yes | 35 (63.6) | 20 (36.4) | 1.40 | 0.96- | 0.070 |
| No | 402 (74) | 141 (26) | 2.04 | |||
| Additive euro SCORE | Mean ± SD | 7.86 ± 3.65 | 12.39 ± 3.07 | <0.001 | ||
| Surgical treatment | Yes | 180 (67.2) | 88 (32.8) | 1.19 | 0.95- | 0.07 |
| No | 317 (72.5) | 120 (27.5) | 1.50 | |||
| Not performed surgery¶ | Yes | 7 (13.2) | 46 (86.8) | 19,8 | 8.80- | <0.001 |
| No | 490 (75.2) | 162(24.8) | 7 | 44.89 | ||
Data are expressed as number of cases (%) except when indicated.
* Size of vegetations measured in 598 patients. ¶Surgery indicated but not performed