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Infective Endocarditis in Children: The Changing Profile
Author(s) -
KAPLAN EDWARD L.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1989.tb00295.x
Subject(s) - medicine , infective endocarditis , endocarditis , microbiology and biotechnology , cardiology , biology
A bstract This article discusses the principles for diagnosis and treatment of infective endocarditis in children. There has generally been a consistent volume of streptococcus endocarditis, the major lesion in pediatric endocarditis, but there has been an increase in Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis as well as neonatal endocarditis. Neonatal endocarditis is a severe form of the disease.