Predictors of mortality in early surgical intervention for active native valve endocarditis and significance of antimicrobial therapy: A single-center experience

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-22

  Balasubramanian, Sendhil K ^a,b   Behranwala, Ali ^a   Devbhandari, Mohan ^a   Nzewi, Onyekwelu ^a   Walker, William S ^a   Prasad, Sai U ^a   Mankad, Pankaj S ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACTIVE NATIVE VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BIOPROSTHESIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEART VALVE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOPROSTHESIS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 17944365224     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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