Active infective endocarditis: Clinical characteristics and factors related to hospital mortality

Cardiology Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 566-573

  Rostagno, Carlo ^a   Rosso, Gabriele ^a   Puggelli, Francesco ^a   Gelsomino, Sandro ^b   Braconi, Lucio ^b   Montesi, Gian Franco ^b   Romagnoli, Stefano ^b   Stefano, Pier Luigi ^b   Gensini, Gian Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Endocarditis; Prognosis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; PACEMAKER ENDOCARDITIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRICUSPID VALVE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79251485286     PISSN: 18975593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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