Early surgery in patients with infective endocarditis: A propensity score analysis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 364-372

  Aksoy, Olcay ^a,b   Sexton, Daniel J ^a   Wang, Andrew ^a   Pappas, Paul A ^b   Kourany, Wissam ^a   Chu, Vivian ^a,b   Fowler Jr , Vance G ^a,b   Woods, Christopher W ^a   Engemann, John J ^a   Corey, G Ralph ^a,b   Harding, Tina ^b   Cabell, Christopher H ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART ABSCESS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERIZATION; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846432748     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/510583     Document Type: Article

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