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Risk factors for prosthetic valve endocarditis—A case control study
2009
Objective
Prosthetic valve endocarditis is a catastrophic complication of cardiac valve replacement associated with significant morbidity and high mortality. The aim of this study was to assess the risk factors leading to the development of prosthetic valve endocarditis.
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- Surgery
- Internal medicine
- Atrial fibrillation
- Cardiology
- Infective endocarditis
- Valve replacement
- Case-control study
- Complication
- Intensive care unit
- Mechanical heart-valve
- Intensive care medicine
- Medicine
- Endocarditis
- prosthetic valve endocarditis
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- Vascular surgery
- high mortality
- Cardiac surgery
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