Indications for surgery and operative techniques in infective endocarditis in the present day

Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-46

  Gutierrez Martin, María Angeles ^a   Galvez Aceval, Juan ^a   Araji, Omar A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Infective endocarditis; Surgical treatment; Valvular disease

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTOBIPROLE; DALBAVANCIN; DAPTOMYCIN; LINEZOLID;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMBOLISM; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PERSISTENT INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECURRENT INFECTION; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR; TRICUSPID VALVE REPLACEMENT;

EID: 77949382382     PISSN: 18715265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/187152610790410963     Document Type: Review

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