Surgical treatment of endocarditis: current status.
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Infective endocarditis can be described by confidence in its diagnosis (Duke criteria), by its causative microorganisms, its infectious activity, its location, its affecting a native or prosthetic valve, its pathologic characteristics, and its cardiac and extracardiac complications. Although the treatment of endocarditis has improved, endocarditis remains a serious disease.1
Source: PubMed Central
Author: Gosta B Pettersson
Institution: Cleveland Clinic
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W98680286