Association Between Valvular Surgery and Mortality Among Patients With Infective Endocarditis Complicated by Heart Failure
Author(s) -
Todd L. Kiefer,
Lawrence Park,
Christophe Tribouilloy,
Claudia Cortés,
R. Casillo,
Vivian H. Chu,
François Delahaye,
Emanuele DuranteMangoni,
Jameela Edathodu,
Carlos Falces,
Mateja Logar,
José M. Miró,
Christophe Naber,
Marie Françoise Tripodi,
David Murdoch,
Philippe Moreillon,
Riccardo Utili,
Andrew Wang,
for the ICE-PCS Investigators
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.2011.1701
Subject(s) - medicine , infective endocarditis , endocarditis , heart failure , context (archaeology) , prospective cohort study , surgery , valvular heart disease , cohort study , heart valve , cohort , cardiology , paleontology , biology
Heart failure (HF) is the most common complication of infective endocarditis. However, clinical characteristics of HF in patients with infective endocarditis, use of surgical therapy, and their associations with patient outcome are not well described.
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