Outcome of aortic homograft implantation in 24 cases of severe infective endocarditis

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 216-220

  Foghsgaard, Signe ^a   Bruun, Niels ^a   Kjaergard, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTIC DISEASES; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39349096496     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540701632980     Document Type: Article

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