Table 2.

Chronic/sequellar processes: results of DMEI, DPE, culture of valve and clinical features and other biological parameters

	patient	DMEI	Culture of the valve	Blood cultures during	Blood cultures before the cardiac	ATB	Intra-
				the cardiac surgery	surgery	before the surgery	cellular
						(time)	bacteria
							serology
DPE+	25	Neg	S. hominis	Neg	/	Yes	ND
	26	Neg	Neg	Neg	S. capitis Acinetobacter sp	Yes	Neg
	27	Neg	Neg	ND
DPE-	28	Neg	P. acnes	ND	S. agalactiae	Yes > 15 days	ND
	29	Neg	P. acnes	ND	Streptococcus sp2	Yes 15 days	ND
	30	Neg	Neg	ND	/	Yes 2 months	ND
	31	Neg	Neg	Neg	/	No	ND
	32	Neg	Neg	Neg	S. aureus	Yes 2 months	ND
	33	Neg	Neg	Neg	S. aureus	Yes 3 days	ND
	34	Neg	Neg	ND	/	Yes 1 month	ND
	35	Neg	Neg	Neg	ND	Yes	ND
	36	Neg	Neg	ND
	37	Neg	Neg	ND	S. aureus	Yes 1 month	ND
	38	Neg	Neg	ND	ND	No	ND
	39	Neg	P. acnes	ND	Neg	Yes 10 days	ND
	40	Neg	S. epidermidis	ND	/	Yes 2 months	ND
	41	Neg	Neg	ND	Streptococcus sp2	Yes	ND
	42	Neg	Neg	ND	/	Yes 2 months	ND
	43	Neg	Neg	Neg	/	Yes	ND
	44	Neg	OPF	Neg	Neg	No	ND
	45	Neg	Neg	Neg	/	Yes	ND
	46	Neg	Neg	ND	/	No	ND
	47	Neg	Neg	ND	ND	Yes 11 days	ND
	48	Neg	Neg	ND	ND	No	ND
	49	Neg	P. acnes	Neg	Neg	Yes 5 days	ND
	50	Neg	Neg	ND
	51	Neg	Neg	ND
	52	Neg	Corynebacterium sp	ND	ND	No	ND
	53	Neg	Neg	Neg	S. pneumoniae	Yes > 1 month	ND

DPE = direct pathological examination, DMEI = direct microscopic examination of imprints, 2 Streptococcus sp was identified as belonging to streptococci viridans group ATB = antibiotic; Neg = negative, ND = not done, OPF = oro-pharyngeal flora, retrospective study impossible for patients 27, 36, 50, 51.