Table 1.

Distribution of types of valves infected within the study group.

	Type of valve infected (N = 113∗)
	Native	Prosthetic	Cardiac devices
Aortic	37	28
Mitral	34	5
Tricuspidal	2	1
			6
N (%)	73 (64.6)	34 (30.1)	6 (5.3)
104 patients; F/M ratio 1 : 3; mean age 66.0 ± 12.6 years

^∗Heart valves of patients with two infected heart valves are counted separately.