Infectious endocarditis of a chiari network

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1303-1305

  Payne, Darrin M ^b   Baskett, Roger J F ^a   Hirsch, Gregory M ^b  

^a Maritime Heart Centre   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0141785667     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00522-8     Document Type: Article

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