The Economic Burden of Infective Endocarditis due to Injection Drug Use in Australia: A Single Centre Study—University Hospital Geelong, Barwon Health, Victoria

Table 2

Characteristics of patients with IE-IDU.

	n (n = 23)	ICE	Heroin	Died	ICU admission	Valve surgery
		8	16	3	17	12
Male sex (%)	11 (47%)	6 (75%)	5 (33%)	1 (33%)	8 (47%)	6 (50%)
S. aureus	19 (83%)	6 (75%)	14 (88%)	3 (100%)	14 (82%)	8 (66%)
Candida sp.	1 (4%)	—	1 (6%)	—	—	1 (8%)
Strep. sp.	3 (13%)	2 (25%)	1 (6%)	—	3 (18%)	2 (17%)

ICE: methamphetamine; RSIE, right sided infective endocarditis; LSIE, left sided infective endocarditis; LSIE and RSIE, left and right sided Infective endocarditis.