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New heart disease therapy study findings have been reported by scientists at Hospital Clinico Universitario

Published in Biotech Business Week, February 26th, 2007

A report, "Clinical and prognostic profile of patients with infective endocarditis who need urgent surgery," is newly published data in European Heart Journal. According to a study from Valladolid, Spain, "Surgery in patients with infective endocarditis (IE) can be elective (upon completion of antibiotic treatment) or urgent (before antibiotic treatment has ended) when the clinical course is unfavourable. However, urgent surgery for left-sided endocarditis is associated with high mortality."

"The aims of this study were to describe the profile of patients with left-sided endocarditis who underwent urgent surgery and to analyse the factors that predicted mortality. Among...

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