Obstruction of the left main coronary ostium due to an aortic vegetation: Survival after early surgery

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 192-193

  Millaire, Alain ^a,b   Van Belle, Eric ^b   De Groote, Pascal ^b   Leroy, Olivier ^b   Ducloux, Gérard ^b  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CAPTOPRIL; GENTAMICIN; HEPARIN; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030033683     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.1.192     Document Type: Article

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