Successful Surgical Management of Patients with Infective Endocarditis Associated with Acute Neurologic Deficits

Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 220-223

  Sawamura, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Fukuju, Takeo ^a   Kikuchi, Sekinori ^a   Kitahara, Masakazu ^a   Ito, Takashi ^a   Tabayashi, Koichi ^b  

^a Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute neurologic deficit; Cardiac surgery; Infective endocarditis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; DIURETIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MITRAL VALVE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 0036582218     PISSN: 13444964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03032291     Document Type: Conference Paper

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