Infective endocarditis - New guidance recommends a more aggressive approach

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 489-490

  Cowie, Martin R ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b British Junior Cardiac Association   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONSULTATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE INJURY; INFLAMMATION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; OTOTOXICITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PUBLICATION; RARE DISEASE; REGISTER; SERODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 11244309718     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.4-6-489     Document Type: Editorial

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