Infective endocarditis and COVID -19 coinfection: An updated review.
Acta Biomed
; 93(1): e2022030, 2022 03 14.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1754144
ABSTRACT
With the rising number of COVID-19 patients, there have been reports of patients presenting with concomitant infective endocarditis. In this retrospective review, we included all articles from Medline with COVID-19 and infective endocarditis coinfection. Ten articles were identified from eight different countries over the world over the past 11 months. All patients reported with the above coinfections were male with a mean age of 53 years. Clinical features of COVID-19 and the presence of ground-glass opacity in CT thorax were predominant among patients with positive RT-PCR for COVID-19. New-onset embolic infarct, pulmonary edema was a contributor to the diagnosis of endocarditis in most patients. Involvement of the aortic valve was most common. Delayed diagnosis and cardiac surgery were contributors to increased morbidity.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Endocarditis
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Endocarditis, Bacterial
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Coinfection
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Reviews
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Journal:
Acta Biomed
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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