Surgical treatment for infective endocarditis and hospital mortality in a Brazilian single-center Tratamento cirúrgico para endocardite infecciosa e mortalidade hospitalar em centro único brasileiro

Surgical treatment for infective endocarditis and hospital mortality in a Brazilian single-center Tratamento cirúrgico para endocardite infecciosa e mortalidade hospitalar em centro único brasileiro

OBJECTIVE: We evaluated patients underwent cardiac valve surgery in the presence of infective endocarditis in an attempt to identify independent predictors of 30-day mortality. METHODS: We evaluated 837 consecutive patients underwent cardiac valve surgery from January 2003 to May 2010 in a tertiary...

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Main Authors: Maurício Nassau Machado, Marcelo Arruda Nakazone, Jamil Ali Murad-Júnior, Lilia Nigro Maia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular 2013-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Subjects:
Endocardite bacteriana
Procedimentos cirúrgicos cardíacos
Mortalidade hospitalar
Bacterial endocarditis
Cardiac surgical procedures
Hospital mortality
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