Infective endocarditis in Turkey: aetiology, clinical features, and analysis of risk factors for mortality in 325 cases.

Objective: In order to define the current characteristics of infective endocarditis (IE) in Turkey, we evaluated IE cases over a 14-year period in a tertiary referral hospital.

Methods: All adult patients who were hospitalized in our hospital with a diagnosis of IE between 2000 and 2013 were included in the study. Modified Duke criteria were used for diagnosis.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection: an independent risk factor for mortality in patients with poststernotomy mediastinitis.

Objective: The mortality rate of patients with poststernotomy mediastinitis remains very high. The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors associated with mortality in these patients.

Subjects And Methods: Surveillance of sternal surgical-site infections including mediastinitis was carried out for adult patients undergoing a sternotomy between 2004 and 2012.