Surgery for active culture-positive endocarditis: Determinants of early and late outcome

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1448-1454

  Alexiou, Christos ^a   Langley, Stephen M ^a   Stafford, Helena ^a   Lowes, John A ^a   Livesey, Steven A ^a   Monro, James L ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; FEMALE; FUNGUS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033918094     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01139-5     Document Type: Article

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