Features of infective endocarditis in a contemporary cohort of persons who inject drugs: a matched comparison analysis of long-term prognostic factors

Members of the Monaldi Hospital Cardiovascular Infection Study Group

Emanuele Durante-Mangoni MD, PhD, Domenico Iossa PhD, Lorenzo Bertolino MD, Maria Paola Ursi MD, Fabiana D’Amico BSc, Arta Karruli MD, Mohammad Said Ramadan MD, Fabian Patauner MD, Raffaella Gallo MD, Anna Maria Peluso MD, Oriana Infante MD, Roberto Andini MD, Rosa Zampino MD, PhD (internal medicine); Mariano Bernardo MSc, Giuseppe Ruocco MSc (microbiology); Giovanni Dialetto MD, Franco Enrico Covino MD, Sabrina Manduca MD, PhD (echocardiography); Alessandro Della Corte MD, PhD, Luca S. De Santo MD, PhD, Antonio Carozza MD, PhD, Marisa De Feo MD, PhD (cardiac surgery); Gerardo Nigro MD, PhD (electrophysiology); Maria Luisa De Rimini MD (nuclear medicine); Nicola Galdieri MD (intensive care).

Financial support and conflict of interest disclosure

EDM reports research funding for his institution from MSD, Pfizer, Angelini, Infectopharm, and Advanz pharma, and personal fees or fees to participate in advisory boards or speaker’s honoraria from Roche, Genentech, Pfizer, MSD, Angelini, Advanz pharma, Bio-Merieux, Shionogi, Menarini, Abbvie, Sanofi-Aventis, Medtronic, Trx, and DiaSorin.

Human and animal rights

Data collection was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” and AORN Ospedali dei Colli (prot. N. AOC/011110/2020). Personal and clinical data were managed in agreement with the Declaration of Helsinki and the General Data Protection Regulation (679/2016).

Informed consent

All patients provided informed consent to the anonymous use of their clinical data for scientific purposes.

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