A rare cause of late infective endocarditis after heart surgery

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 371-374

  Branco, Luísa ^a,b   Luz Pitta, M ^a   Galrinho, Ana ^a   Real, Hugo Corte ^a   Gomes Da Cruz, A ^a   Conceicao J ^a   Morgado, Vital ^a   Goncalves J M ^a   Mata Antunes, A ^a  

^a Hospital de Santa Marta ^*

^b HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARTA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SUTURE; TIME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SUTURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031135449     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(97)70076-2     Document Type: Article

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