INFECTIOUS ENDOCARDITIS - PROGNOSIS OF TH E COURSE AND OUTCOMES

Prognostic significance of various clinical and laboratory indices for predicting the course and outsome of infectious endocarditis (IE) has been analyzed for 139 IE patients aged 15-68 (77 males and 62 females ). The unfavourable prognosis was associated with uncontrollable sepsi s, persistence of circulating immune complexes and developing glomerul onephritis. The latter had also prognostic signs unfavourable for IE: moderate or severe proteinuria and/or cylindruria, reduced renal funct ion, diffuse proliferation, pronounced extracapillary and/or tubuloint erstitial components.