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  • Published on: 22 December 2022
    Infective endocarditis as a casualty of COVID-19

    Unfortunately, the review of cardiovascular disease and mortality sequelae of COVID-19[1] did not encompass the infective endocarditis(IE) dimension. By contrast, a multicentre retrospective observational study conducted at 26 Spanish referral centres for infective endocarditis and cardiac surgery made the following observations:-
    When data from 2020 were compared with data from 2019, the year 2020 was characterised by a 34% reduction in the absolute number of definite IE episodes. The authors attributed this decline to the possibility that people with occult IE were either obeying strict instructions to stay at home or were reluctant to seek medical attention for fear of contracting COVID-19 in a medical facility[2]. Anecdotal reports, however, reflect the reality that people with severe symptoms of COVID 19 have no choice but to go to hospital whether or not they unknowingly have coexisting IE.. Included in that category was a patient with coexistence of native valve bacterial endocarditis and COVID-19 pneumonia[3], and the patient with catastrophic Candida prosthetic valve endocarditis and COVID-19 pneumonia[4].. By contrast some patients who attend hospital with symptoms and radiographic stigmata suggestive of COVID-19 infection ultimately prove to have complications of infective endocarditis in the total absence of coexistence ofr COVID-19 infection.[5]. In the latter report the chest radiograph of a patient with breathlessness showed bilateral opaciti...

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