Reporting surgical outcomes of left-sided endocarditis: can patient features and analysis methods matter more than prosthesis type?

Autor: Corte, Alessandro Della, Rubino, Antonio S
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Zdroj: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery; Aug2022, Vol. 62 Issue 2, p1-2, 2p
Abstrakt: Can prosthesis type influence the recurrence of infective endocarditis after surgery for native valve endocarditis? In our study [[3]], with mechanical prostheses, neither the recurrence of endocarditis nor the need for endocarditis-related reoperation differed significantly compared to the outcomes observed after implantation of a biological prosthesis. [Extracted from the article]
Databáze: Complementary Index