Latent infective endocarditis: Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of patients with unsuspected endocarditis detected after elective valve replacement

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1623-1629

  Shapira, Nadiv ^a   Merin, Ofer ^a   Rosenmann, Eliezer ^a   Dzigivker, Ilia ^a   Bitran, Dan ^a   Yinnon, Amos M ^b   Silberman, Shuli ^a  

^a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery ^*  (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BARTONELLA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRUCELLA; CHLAMYDIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART ABSCESS; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LEGIONELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MYCOPLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; REOPERATION; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; SEROLOGY;

EID: 19644377551     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.05.052     Document Type: Article

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