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Follow‐up Study on Children with Infective Endocarditis
Author(s) -
SCHOLLIN J.,
BJARKE B.,
WESSTRÖM G.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1989.tb17946.x
Subject(s) - medicine , infective endocarditis , intracardiac injection , endocarditis , surgery , pediatrics , antibiotics , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
. A follow‐up study on 36 children having had infective endocarditis during the time period 1971–80 was performed. All answered a questionnaire and 33 underwent a complete noninvasive cardiac examination including exercise test. The study comprised 406 patient years. During this time there were four late deaths and three recurrent attacks of endocarditis. Seventeen (47 %) took prophylactic antibiotics. Two patients had been operated on because of the initial infection and another five had developed intracardiac sequelae. An ability index given to each patient before the infection and at the follow‐up showed that as a group these patients were doing well.