Infective endocarditis in children with congenital heart disease compare to structurally normal heart

Background Epidemiologic of infective endocarditis (IE) is changing and paediatric population is heterogeneous. We compare clinical characteristics according cardiac status among children. Methods A retrospective multi centric study was conducted over a decade. Clinical presentation, treatment, outcome, microorganism, underlying congenital heart disease data were recorded. Results We identified 64 cases of definite IE between January 2008 to December 2018 median age was 8.0 [0.8–13.2] and 26 were girls, S aureus was the most common pathogen, n = 22 (34%), presented in Table 1 . CHD represented 45 cases of IE and 38 patients had prior cardiac surgery, they were significantly younger and community acquired IE was more common. New cardiac murmur 11 (24%) vs. 11 (58%), P  Conclusion CHD patients seem older, require more valve replacement and present community acquired infection when patients without CHD presented more neurological outcome and more hospital acquired infection.