Better prognosis of elderly patients with infectious endocarditis in the era of routine echocardiography and nonrestrictive indications for valve surgery

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 702-707

  Zamorano, José ^a,b   Sanz, Javier ^a,b   Moreno, Raúl ^a,b   Almería, Carlos ^a,b   Rodrigo, José Luis ^a,b   De Marco, Ester ^a,b   Serra, Viviana ^a,b   Samedi, Miriam ^a,b   Sánchez Harguindey, Luis ^a,b  

^a Hospital Clínico San Carlos ^*

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRICUSPID VALVE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0036634388     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.118927     Document Type: Article

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