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Reports from M. Martinezselles and colleagues advance knowledge in heart disease

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, December 26th, 2008

"To describe postdischarge survival rates and late complications In nom-Intravenous drug users (non-IVDUs) after treatment of Infective endocarditis (IE). This prospective study consists of con. secutive cases of IE In non-IVDUs seen between January 1, 1994, and August 31, 2005," investigators in Madrid, Spain report.

"Patient treatment (le, pharmaceutical and/or surgical) and cardiac valve Involved In Infection (le, aortic and/or mitral; whether valve was native or prosthetic) were recorded. Patient follow-up, to March 31, 2007, occurred at 1, 2, 3, and 4 years. Complications, survival, and mortality were statistically analyzed. During the study period, 230 episodes of...

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