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Comparison of clinical and morphological characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis with endocarditis caused by other pathogens
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- Published on: 23 November 2015Determinants of Survival in Patients with Paravalvular AbscessDear Editor,Show More
We congratulate the authors on highlighting adverse prognostic indicators in patients with infective endocarditis. We recently examined predictors of mortality in 47 patients from our center who presented with paravalvular abscess formation - a complication of infective endocarditis (J Am Soc of Echocardiogr, in press). We found renal failure and neurologic impairment as the determinants of survival in our smal...
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