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Blood velocity and endocarditis.
DESPITE the successful use of anitibioties in the treatment of infective endocarditis, the failure of therapy in perhaps onre third of the patients with this condition keeps it in the forefront as a major threat in heart disease.1 2 The increasing incidence of endocarditis following cardiac surgery has also provided an unexpected and disturbing feature of progress in cardiac management.3In addi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.27.1.18