Early onset prosthetic valve endocarditis: The Cleveland Clinic experience 1992-1997

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1388-1392

  Gordon, Steven M ^a   Serkey, Janet M ^a   Longworth, David L ^a   Lytle, Bruce W ^a   Cosgrove III, Delos M ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNGUS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033932035     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01135-8     Document Type: Article

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