lnfectious endocarditis - Experience of an Internal Medicine Department
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infectious endicarditisAbstract
The authors analysed thirteen cases of infectious endocarditis and emphazise some aspects such the cause of admission, clinical presentation, diagnostic criteria, ecocardiographic al terations, subjacent patology, etiologic agents, complications and prognosis.
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