Enrico Cecchi, Silvia Corcione, Tommaso Lupia, Ilaria De Benedetto, Nour Shbaklo, Fabio Chirillo, Antonella Moreo, Mauro Rinaldi, Pompilio Faggiano, Moreno Cecconi, Olivia Bargiacchi, Alessandro Cialfi, Stefano Del Ponte, Angelo Squeri, Oscar Gaddi, Maria Gabriella Carmina, Alessandro Lazzaro, Giovannino Ciccone, Anna Castiglione, Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa
Intravenous drug use is a predisposing condition for infective endocarditis (IE). We report the clinical features of IE, taken from the Italian Registry of IE, in people who inject drugs (PWIDs). The registry prospectively collected epidemiological, clinical, in-hospital, and follow-up data on patients with IE from 17 Italian centers. A total of 677 patients were enrolled, and 61 (9%) were intravenous drug users (IDUs). Most PWIDs were male (78.6%), and aged between 41 and 50 years old (50%). The most frequent comorbidities were HIV (34...
July 14, 2022: Journal of Clinical Medicine