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Table 2 Echocardiographic results of 310 IE patients

From: Preoperative false-negative transthoracic echocardiographic results in native valve infective endocarditis patients: a retrospective study from 2001 to 2018

Variable

Total

N = 300

Surgery

N = 182

None surgery

N = 118

P

Positive echocardiographic results

 Vegetation

266 (88.7)

157 (86.3)

109 (91.6)

0.103

  Left heart

193 (64.3)

117 (64.3)

76 (63.9)

0.983

   Only on aortic valve

70 (23.3)

42 (23.1)

28 (23.5)

0.896

   Only on mitral valve

101 (33.7)

57 (31.3)

44 (37.0)

0.285

   Aortic valve and mitral valve

22 (7.3)

18 (9.9)

4 (3.4)

0.035

  Right heart

58 (19.3)

32 (17.6)

26 (21.8)

0.340

   Only on tricuspid valve

54 (18.0)

29 (15.9)

25 (21.0)

0.247

   Only on pulmonic valve

4 (1.3)

3 (1.6)

1 (0.8)

0.940

  Left heart and right heart

9 (3.0)

2 (1.1)

7 (5.9)

0.040

 Perivalvular abscess

4 (1.3)

3 (1.6)

1 (0.8)

0.940

 Aortic sinus aneurysm

6 (2.0)

4 (2.2)

2 (1.7)

1.000

 Perforation

20 (6.7)

11 (6.0)

9 (7.6)

0.591

 Severe valve insufficiency

176 (58.7)

122 (67.0)

54 (45.4)

0.000

Size of vegetations

  > 1 cm

236 (78.7)

144 (79.1)

92 (77.3)

0.811