Is Infective Endocarditis Changing Over Time?
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Changing trends of infective endocarditis.
OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of culture positive and culture negative endocarditis and type of organisms causing bacterial endocarditis in patients admitted at National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), Karachi. METHODS This was a cross sectional, descriptive study conducted from 29th March 2006 to 13th October 2006 at National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.10.016