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Higher incidence of perivalvular abscess determines perioperative clinical outcome in patients undergoing surgery for prosthetic valve endocarditis

BACKGROUND: Cardiac surgery for prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) is associated with substantial mortality. We aimed to analyze 30-day and 1-year outcome in patients undergoing surgery for PVE and sought to identify preoperative risk factors for mortality with special regard to perivalvular infect...

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Autores principales: Weber, Carolyn, Rahmanian, Parwis B., Nitsche, Melanie, Gassa, Asmae, Eghbalzadeh, Kaveh, Hamacher, Stefanie, Merkle, Julia, Deppe, Antje-Christin, Sabashnikov, Anton, Kuhn, Elmar W., Liakopoulos, Oliver J., Wahlers, Thorsten
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6998844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32013875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-020-01338-y