Incidence of neurological complications in patients with native-valve infective endocarditis and cerebral microembolism: An open cohort study

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 708-713

  Lepur, Dragan ^a   Barŝić, Bruno ^a  

^a Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENINGITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROEMBOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORAXELLA; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP C; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; TREATMENT DURATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 72449131494     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540903146995     Document Type: Article

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