Infective endocarditis in pediatric patients: an eighteen-year experience from King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital.

Objectives: To review the clinical features and outcome of the pediatric patients diagnosed with infective endocarditis (IE) at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital over an 18-year period.

Material And Method: From January 1987 to December 2004, 57 pediatric patients; 28 females and 29 males, age ranged from 2 months to 15 years, mean of 8.64 +/- 3.