ArticleEpidemiology and infection2018
Errors in diagnosis of infective endocarditis.
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- Delayed Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis-Analysis of an Endocarditis Network.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Fewer Minor Modified Duke Criteria on Admission Are Associated with Worse 90-Day Mortality in Patients with Confirmed Infective Endocarditis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- The complex diagnosis of post-dialysis fever: a case report and literature review of infective endocarditis in a dialysis patient.BMC nephrology · 2025Review
- Transthoracic Echocardiography in Assessing Patients with Suspected Infective Endocarditis (TEASE): An Exploratory Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Infectious Causes of Death: An Autopsy-Based Study of 546 Cases.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Prognostic factors for long-term mortality after surgery of left-sided infective endocarditis.PloS one · 2025Article
- A Large Tricuspid Subvalvular Apparatus Infective Endocarditis Undetected by Transthoracic Echocardiography.Cureus · 2024Article
- Men's more frequent predisposing factors in infectious endocarditis facilitate improvement of outcomes by shortening of diagnostic delay.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Article
- Culture-negative tricuspid valve endocarditis in an intravenous drug abuser masquerading as pulmonary tuberculosis in Nepal: a case report.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- Case report on right ventricular mural endocarditis, not diagnosed clinically, but histopathologically after cardiac surgery.European heart journal. Case reports · 2022Article
- Expanding utility of cardiac computed tomography in infective endocarditis: A contemporary review.World journal of radiology · 2022Review
- Infective Endocarditis: Clinical Characteristics and Echocardiographic Findings.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- Errors in Diagnosing Infectious Diseases: A Physician Survey.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Factors associated with delayed diagnosis of infective endocarditis: A retrospective cohort study in a teaching hospital in Japan.Medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
Infective endocarditis (IE) is now the third or fourth most common life-threatening infectious disease. The high morbidity and mortality rates in the absence of appropriate care necessitate a thorough understanding of the obstacles towards the early diagnosis and management of IE. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of discrepancy in diagnosis (i.e. discrepancy between the reason for admission and discharge diagnosis) and associated factors in patients with IE. It was a retrospective review of hospital records of all adult patients admitted in a 1000-bed academic general hospital in Mashhad, Iran with the discharge diagnosis of IE. Discrepancy in diagnosis on admission was observed in 64 (54.2%) of 118 episodes of IE. For patients with discrepant diagnosis, the odds of poor outcome were more than two times higher than the odds of those with the non-discrepant diagnosis. Multivariate analysis identified the only history of prosthetic valve replacement as an independent factor in predicting non-discrepant diagnosis. We suggest that in facing a patient with the complex clinical scenario, proposing a comprehensive clinical syndrome that includes predisposing factors instead of a symptom or finding-based diagnosis can help making the differential diagnosis more accurate.
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