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- Title
Risk of Infective Endocarditis Revisited.
- Authors
AHC MEDIA
- Abstract
In a comparison of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) and either bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) or mitral valve prolapse (MVP) vs. other IE patients at high or low to moderate risk of IE, BAV and MVP patients were more likely to exhibit viridans streptococci group infections of suspected odontogenic origin and cardiac complications at similar rates to high-risk patients.
- Subjects
ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOCARDITIS prevention; AORTIC valve diseases; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors; CARDIOVASCULAR surgery; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CARDIAC hypertrophy; MEDICAL protocols; MITRAL valve prolapse; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPED countries; VIRIDANS strepotococci; ANTIBIOTIC prophylaxis; DISEASE complications; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Clinical Cardiology Alert, 2018, Vol 37, Issue 9, p0
- ISSN
0741-4218
- Publication type
Article