Factors affecting long-term mortality in endocarditis: The bugs, the drugs, the knife ... or the patients?

American Heart Journal

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 6-8

  Cabell, Christopher H ^a   Peterson, Gail E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0035174948     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhj.2001.111953     Document Type: Article

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