Nonvalvular Cardiovascular Device–Related Infections
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Nonvalvular cardiovascular device-related infections.
More than a century ago, Osler took numerous syndrome descriptions of cardiac valvular infection that were incomplete and confusing and categorized them into the cardiovascular infections known as infective endocarditis. Because he was both a clinician and a pathologist, he was able to provide a meaningful outline of this complex disease. Technical advances have allowed us to better subcategori...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.0000093201.57771.47