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Endocarditis
Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 8th Edition
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Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2016
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Abstract
The clinical presentation of endocarditis is often nonspecific and variable, with potential to affect nearly every organ system in an indolent or fulminant course. The vast majority of endocarditis is infective; diagnosis relies on a set of explicit criteria, which include findings from blood culture, echocardiography, and close clinical observation. Unrecognized infective endocarditis has frequent complications and high mortality.
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Richard E. Rothman, Catherine A. Marco and Samuel Yang. "Endocarditis" Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 8th Edition (2016) ISSN: 9780071794763 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/catherine_marco/79/
This chapter was also published in the 7th Edition of Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine and the 6th Edition of Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine.