A retrospective cohort study published in Anatolian Journal of Cardiology evaluated the epidemiological characteristics, clinical features, and mortality-associated factors among patients with right-sided infective endocarditis (RSIE). The study included 65 adult patients diagnosed with definite RSIE at a tertiary-care center in Türkiye between 2018 and 2024. The cohort was predominantly male (76.9%) with a median age of 36 years. Intravenous drug use (IVDU) was the most frequent risk factor (55.4%), followed by central venous catheters (24.6%) and hemodialysis (23.1%).
Staphylococcus aureus was identified as the leading causative microorganism (79%), and septic pulmonary embolism was reported in 81.6% of patients. The overall in-hospital mortality rate was 26.2%. Although patients with IVDU had lower mortality compared with non-IVDU patients (17.4% vs. 44%; P=0.036), hemodialysis was…
