Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of 110 patients with valvular heart disease.

Characteristic	IE patients (N = 99)	Non-IE patients (N = 11)	P-value
Male	78 (78.8%)	6 (54.5%)	0.073
Mean age	47 ± 15.7 years old	52 ± 9.2 years old	0.431
Weight	59 ± 11.2 kg	55 ± 10.2 kg	0.218
Left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (mm)	56 ± 8.3	53 ± 4.0	0.132
Left ventricular ejection fraction (%)	61 ± 8.7	58 ± 13.5	0.611
Antibiotics used before admission	43 (43.4%)	2 (18.2%)	0.194
Previous cardiac surgery	9 (9.1%)	0	0.594
Blood culture positive	29 (29.3%)	0	0.035
Valve culture positive	16 (16.2%)	0	0.361
Valve NGS positive	85 (85.9%)	3 (27.3%)	<0.001
Cardiopulmonary bypass time (min)	167 ± 73.7	193 ± 59.3	0.053
Aortic cross-clamp time (min)	111 ± 49.9	131 ± 42.6	0.049
ICU length of stay (d)	4 ± 3.0	4 ± 3.2	0.459
Hospital length of stay (d)	40 ± 12.5	28 ± 13.2	0.007
Death	3 (3%)	0	1.0