Preventing bacterial endocarditis: American Heart Association guidelines

American Family Physician

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 457-468

  Taubert, Kathryn A ^a   Dajani, Adnan S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFADROXIL; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFUROXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HEPARIN; PENICILLIN V; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DENTAL SURGERY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ALGORITHMS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032005787     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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