Outcome of Patients Requiring Valve Surgery During Active Infective Endocarditis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1564-1569

  Hill, Evelyn E ^a   Herregods, Marie Christine ^a   Vanderschueren, Steven ^a   Claus, Piet ^a   Peetermans, Willy E ^a   Herijgers, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ABSCESS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 42949132842     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.02.014     Document Type: Article

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