Table 1.
Special characteristics of the epidemiology of EI in the elderly in age-focused studies.
| Most Frequent Comorbidities (%) | Nosocomial Rate (%) | Valvular Prosthesis (%) | Endovascular Device (%) | Mortality In-Hospital (%) | Mortality at 1 Year (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durante-Magoni et al. (2008) [32] n = 2759 (>70 y, n = 773; <70 y, n = 1985) |
Chronic illness (54.1) * Diabetes mellitus (22.4) * Cancer (14.9) * |
20.3 * | 26.5 * | ND | 25.8 * | ND |
| López-Wolf et al. (2011) [31] n = 618 (>79 y, n = 34; <79 y, n = 584) |
Chronic anemia (30.3) * Diabetes mellitus (24.2) * Immunodepression (12.1) * |
ND | 23.5 * | 11.3* | 20.6 * | ND |
| Bassetti et al. (2014) [16] n = 436 (>75 y, n = 137; <75 y, n = 299) |
Chronic heart failure (47.7) * Chronic renal failure (29.2) * Cancer (25) * |
27.7 * | 40.2 * | ND | 22.6 | ND |
| Oliver et al. (2017) [30] n = 454 (>80 y, n = 51; <80 y, n = 403) |
High blood pressure (58.8) * History of cancer (29.4) * CKD (27.5) * |
23.5 * | 41.2 * | 4 | 15.7 | 37.3 * |
| Armiñanzas et al. (2019) [12] n = 3120 (>80 y, n = 502; <80 y, n = 2618) |
Congestive heart failure (40.5) * Diabetes mellitus (30.7) * Coronary arterial disease (25.7) * |
30.7 | 26.3 * | 16.3 * | 34.7 * | 20.4 * |
| Menchi-Elanzi et al. (2020) [17] n = 72 (>80 y, n = 18; <80 y, n = 54) |
Heart disease (72.2) * Diabetes mellitus (27.8) History of cancer (5.6) |
ND | 38.9 * | 16.7 | 5.6 | ND |
| Kiriyama et al. (2021) [33] n = 20,667 (>80 y, n = 4990; <80 y, n = 15,677) |
High blood pressure (31.8) * Diabetes mellitus (15.9) * Atrial Fibrillation (14) * |
ND | 0.7 * | ND | 22.8 * | ND |
* This data showed a statistically significant difference compared with other age groups. ND: no data.