Introduction:

infective endocarditisis a disease with a diversity of clinical presentation, high morbidity and mortality, a weight of advances in diagnosis and in the efficacy of antibiotics.

Objectives:

to describe the clinical, bacteriological, demographic and associated mortality characteristics of patients with infective endocarditis, admitted to the Hospital Nacional, Itauguá - Paraguay from 2016 to 2018.

Methodology:

observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study of patients with infective endocarditisis, according to modified Duke criteria

Results:

50 patients were included; age 43 ± 16 years, 70 % were men, the origin (38 %) of the Departamento Central, 42 entered for fever (84 %); It was found that 44 (88 %) of the cases on native valves, the most affected were the mitral 20 (46 %) followed by the aortic 16 (36 %), with Staphylococcus aureus (36 %) being the prevalent germ in this group, in addition 6 (12 %) of the cases on prosthetic valves, being in this group Staphylococcus spp. (46 %) the prevalent germ, it was found that they were catheter carriers for hemodialysis 8 (16 %) of the patients, 17 (39 %) with blood cultures negatives

They presented complications (52 %) of these were cardiac (24 %), neurological (18 %), pulmonary embolism (6 %), renal (4 %) and a fatal outcome (44 %) of the cases was found, being those with the worst prognosis neurological complications.

Conclusions:

infective endocarditisis, according to the findings, continues to be a frequent disease with serious complications and high deaths, a challenge; Identification of risk factors to open a scenario in which it would be important to work and promote preventive measures, insist on the use of arteriovenous fistulas for hemodialysis in outpatients. The most frequent germ Staphylococcus spp.

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