Pulmonary complications in infective endocarditis

Abstract

Introduction. Infective endocarditis (IE) is a disease of cardiovascular structures characterized by colonization and invasion of the endocardium by pathogenic microorganisms, causing the formation of vegetation, rupture of choruses and cusps and abscesses. Pulmonary complications (PC) are detected in 70- 98% of patients with right sided IE.Purpose. Studying the PC in patients with IE and their impact on the evolution and prognosis of the disease.Results.Among patients with IE and PC, men exceed (53,7%), women (42,8%), the average age being 51 ± 5 years.The patients developed other complications which had a negative impact on evolution and prognosis of the disease.Conclusions. Patients with IE developed PC in 45.3%. Bronchopulmonary manifestations in patients with IE are about to create diagnostic difficulties, delaying the key investigations for establishing the early diagnosis, causing progression of congestive heart failure and embolic events, which negatively influences the evolution and prognosis of the disease.