Current best practices and guidelines: Indications for surgical intervention in infective endocarditis

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 453-475

  Olaison, Lars ^a   Pettersson, Gösta ^b  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ADDICTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TIME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MYCOSES; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS; HUMANS;

EID: 0036083478     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5520(01)00006-X     Document Type: Review

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