Reparative approach for right-sided endocarditis
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Injection drug use and right sided endocarditis.
If William Osler were alive today he would no doubt remark on the fundamental change in the nature of the disease that he originally described. Staphylococcal endocarditis in injection drug users is now the dominant form of the disease in many urban communities where there is a high incidence of injection drug use and homelessness. At our institution (a tertiary care, university affiliated hosp...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0022-5223
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5223(19)35306-1