Fungal prosthetic valve endocarditis in 16 patients: An 11-year experience in a tertiary care hospital

Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 94-103

  Melgar, Gerardo R ^a   Nasser, Rana M ^a   Gordon, Steven M ^a   Lytle, Bruce W ^a   Keys, Thomas F ^a   Longworth, David L ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SPLEEN INFARCTION; STROKE; SURVIVAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031005116     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-199703000-00002     Document Type: Article

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