Open AccessMortality risk factors in chronic haemodialysis patients with infective endocarditis
Author(s) -
Uday Nori,
Anup Manoharan,
John I. Thornby,
Jerry Yee,
Ravi Parasuraman,
Venkataraman Ramanathan
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
nephrology dialysis transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1460-2385
pISSN - 0931-0509
DOI - 10.1093/ndt/gfl200
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , odds ratio , infective endocarditis , endocarditis , dialysis , proportional hazards model , confidence interval , population , surgery , mortality rate , hemodialysis , environmental health
It is well documented that infective endocarditis (IE) is strongly associated with morbidity and mortality in haemodialysis (HD) patients. Less clear are the mortality risk factors for IE, particularly in an urban African-American dialysis population.
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