Identifying surgical candidates among prosthetic-valve endocarditis patients
Pippa Murdie
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Prosthetic-valve endocarditis (PVE) is regarded as the most serious complication of valve replacement and is associated with a high risk of mortality. There is disagreement, however, over whether surgery or medicine is the more effective treatment strategy. Habib and co-workers addressed this issue in a recent study, which they report to be the largest published series of strict cases of PVE as defined by the DUKE CRITERIA.
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