Clinical course and predictors of death in prosthetic valve endocarditis over a 20-year period

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 887-893

  Alonso Valle, Hector ^a   Fariñas Álvarez, Concepcion ^b   García Palomo, Jose Daniel ^a   Bernal, Jose Manuel ^a   Martín Durán, Rafael ^a   Gutiérrez Díez, Jose Francisco ^a   Revuelta, Jose Manuel ^a   Fariñas, M Carmen ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL SIERRALLANA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOPROSTHESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77949492821     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.05.042     Document Type: Article

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