Table 2.
Valve involvement in cases of IE.
| Valve affected | Number of IE cases |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native valves | Prosthetic valves | Total | % | |
| Mitral | 18 | 1 | 19 | (47.5) |
| Aortic | 13 | 1 | 14 | (35) |
| Tricuspid | 6 | – | 6 | (15) |
| Pulmonary | 1 | – | 1 | (2.5) |
| Total | 38 | 2 | 40 | (100) |
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