Right-sided endocarditis in the non-drug addict.
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Right-sided endocarditis in the non-drug addict.
Fifteen patients with right-sided infective endocarditis during a 5 year period (1985-1990) were retrospectively reviewed. Isolated tricuspid valve involvement occurred in nine patients. Staphylococcus aureus was the causative organism in seven cases; four were culture negative. The diagnosis was established by two-dimensional echocardiography in 11 patients and at postmortem in the remaining f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.70.819.54