Prevalence and characteristic of tricuspid valve endocarditis among patients presented to Ain Shams hospitals echocardiography lab in the years 2013 and 2014

Abstract

Isolated Tricuspid valve infective endocarditis is an infrequent diagnosis, the incidence of Tricuspid valve infective endocarditis accounts for 5% of infective endocarditis in some studies, up to 15% of IE cases in other studies. Modern echocardiographic techniques have significantly improved our ability to diagnose right sided endocarditis and are now the cornerstone of the diagnosis in this disease. Our aim in this study is to assess the prevalence and the echocardiographic characteristics of tricuspid valve endocarditis among patients presented to the echo lab of Ain Shams hospital from 1-12- 2013 and 1-12-2014. The main finding of our study revealed that the incidence of TVIE is about (17.7%) of all cases of IE, and is about (0.67%) of all cases attending the echo lab of Ain shams university during the study period. Also we found that The mean age group in our study was (31.1±7.8) and about 84.3% of patients age was between (20-40) .Also the present study showed a higher incidence of IE in males (90.2%) than in females (9,8%) with a ratio of 9:1.