A Foregone Conclusion?
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Recent European guidelines have emphasized the association of vegetation size with embolic risk in endocarditis (1). On these grounds, left-sided vegetations >1 cm, and right-sided vegetations >2 cm are considered to be an indication for surgery. In this issue of iJACC, investigators from the MEDIC (Multicenter Electrophysiologic Device Cohort) registry report the importance of vegetation size in a group of 129 patients with pacemaker lead– associated endocarditis (LAE) (2). LAE accounts
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