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Repeat Infective Endocarditis in Persons Who Inject Drugs: “Take Another Little Piece of my Heart”

BACKGROUND: Injection drug use (IDU) is a major risk factor for infective endocarditis (IE). Few data exist on repeat IE (rIE) in persons who inject drugs (PWID). METHODS: Patients ≥18 years old seen at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center from 2004 to 2017 who met Duke criteria for IE and who self-re...

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Autores principales: Huang, Glen, Barnes, Erin W, Peacock, James E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30555849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy304