Cardiac Surgery for Infective Endocarditis, Complicated by Septic Cardioembolic Stroke | Zendy

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Cardiac Surgery for Infective Endocarditis, Complicated by Septic Cardioembolic Stroke

Author(s) -

Jeroen Schouten,

Alexander J. G. H. Bindels,

Peter Pickkers,

Hans G. van der Hoeven

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.106.475848

Subject(s) - infective endocarditis , medicine , intensive care , stroke (engine) , endocarditis , embolic stroke , bacterial endocarditis , general surgery , intensive care medicine , surgery , ischemic stroke , cardiology , mechanical engineering , ischemia , engineering

To the Editor:We would like to comment on the recent article written by Dr Ruttmann et al on neurological outcome of cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis complicated by septic cardioembolic stroke.1 We congratulate the authors on their extensive and thorough research, which demonstrates that early surgical intervention appears to be safer than was previously thought. There is, nonetheless, an important question that remains unanswered, and we hope the authors will be able to respond.In our view, the results of the …

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