Infective endocarditis caused by HACEK microorganisms

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue , 1997, Pages 25-33

  Das, M ^a   Badley, A D ^a   Cockerill, F R ^a   Steckelberg, J M ^a   Wilson, W R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; HACEK; Outcome; Therapy

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC;

ADULT; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEART MURMUR; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031046444     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.48.1.25     Document Type: Review

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