Endocarditis Complicating Open-Heart Surgery
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Endocarditis complicating open-heart surgery.
BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS following intracardiac surgery for congenital defects with use of extracorporeal circulation is a new entity, as old only as open intracardiac surgery. The reported experience is therefore meager. Suggestions regarding its pathogenesis, recognition, behavior, management, and prevention are few. Heins and Lindel reported five cases of bacterial endocarditis in a series of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 1961
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.23.4.489