Open AccessDiagnosis of Infective Endocarditis
Author(s) -
Maija Heiro,
J Nikoskelainen,
Jaakko Hartiala,
Markku Saraste,
Pirkko Kotilainen
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.158.1.18
Subject(s) - medicine , infective endocarditis , endocarditis , surgery , pediatrics
Because of the highly variable clinical manifestations of infective endocarditis (IE), different sets of diagnostic criteria have been used to standardize case definitions of IE. We evaluated the validity of the recently proposed Duke criteria, as compared with the older von Reyn criteria, in patients with no history of injecting drug abuse.
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