Clinical features and predictors for mortality in patients with infective endocarditis at a university hospital in Taiwan from 1995 to 2003

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 589-597

  Hsu, C N ^a   Wang, J Y ^a   Tseng, C D ^a   Hwang, J J ^a   Hsueh, P R ^b   Liau, C S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; METICILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TAIWAN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646195839     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805005224     Document Type: Article

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