Incidence and complication rate of infective endocarditis in the Dutch region of Walcheren: A 3-year retrospective study

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 175-181

  Walpot, Jeroen ^a   Blok, Willem ^a   Van Zwienen, Jan ^a   Klazen, Cees ^a   Amsel, Bram ^b  

^a Ziekenhuis Walcheren   (Netherlands)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Complications; Duke criteria; Echocardiography; Incidence; Infective endocarditis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMBOLISM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; HEART ABSCESS; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NETHERLANDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645979634     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.61.2.2014331     Document Type: Article

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