Table 4. Complications and mortality rates among pediatric infective endocarditis case-patients, Israel, 1994–2019*.
Complication | No. (%) |
p value | |
---|---|---|---|
Kingella IE | Non-Kingella IE | ||
Surgical intervention | 8 (42) | 15 (37) | 0.958 |
Urgent surgical intervention† | 4 (8) | 4 (15) | 0.07 |
Congestive heart failure | 7 (37) | 7 (17) | 0.192 |
Valvular impairment | 11 (58) | 15 (37) | 0.233 |
Central nervous system involvement | 4 (21) | 8 (20) | 1 |
Intrahospital death | 0 (0) | 6 (17) | 0.131 |
*IE, infective endocarditis. †<10 days after diagnosis.