Nationwide Increase in the Number of Hospitalizations for Illicit Injection Drug Use-Related Infective Endocarditis | Zendy

Hannah L. F. Cooper | Zendy; Joanne E. Brady | Zendy; Daniel Ciccarone | Zendy; Barbara Tempalski | Zendy; Karla Gostnell | Zendy; Samuel R. Friedman | Zendy

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Nationwide Increase in the Number of Hospitalizations for Illicit Injection Drug Use-Related Infective Endocarditis

Author(s) -

Hannah L. F. Cooper,

Joanne E. Brady,

Daniel Ciccarone,

Barbara Tempalski,

Karla Gostnell,

Samuel R. Friedman

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/522176

Subject(s) - infective endocarditis , medicine , injection drug use , drug , endocarditis , incidence (geometry) , drug injection , surgery , pharmacology , optics , physics

Infective endocarditis is a potentially fatal consequence of illicit injection drug use. We estimate that the number of hospitalization for injection drug use-related infective endocarditis increased by 38%-66% in the United States between 2000-2001 and 2002-2003, a period during which the number of at-risk persons (i.e., injection drug users) remained stable. Increasing methamphetamine use and/or drug injection frequency may have increased the incidence of infective endocarditis among active injection drug users.

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