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Infective endocarditis: introduction
Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Vall d’ Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; ptornos@vhebron.net
Keywords: infective endocarditis
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Infective endocarditis is a very complex disease with a serious prognosis. Even if it is not a very common disease most cardiologists are faced with a few number of cases each year, and every case is a difficult one. In the recent Euro Heart Survey for valvar diseases,1 5001 patients with valvar heart disease were included during a three month period from 27 different European countries. Three per cent of them were patients with infective endocarditis and this figure was similar in the different European regions analysed. In recent years advances in echocardiography have resulted in better and earlier diagnosis, and surgical techniques and indications have also changed. In the most recent series including the French registry2 and the Euro Heart Survey data,1 surgery was used in the active phase of the disease in more than 50% of patients.
Even if improvements in both the diagnosis and treatment have occurred
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