Factors other than the Duke criteria associated with infective endocarditis among injection drug users

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 118-125

  Palepu, Anita ^a,b,e   Cheung, Stephen S ^a   Montessori, Valentina ^c   Woods, Ryan ^f   Thompson, Christopher R ^d  

^a Div of General Internal Medicine   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR HEALTH EVALUATION AND OUTCOME SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIV AIDS   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Endocarditis, bacterial; Fever; Prospective studies; Risk factors; Substance abuse, intravenous

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANADA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG INFARCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PYURIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 0036703686     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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