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This reference resource represents the consensus opinion a team of international specialists on the diagnosis and treatment of infective endocarditis (IE), many of whom have been co-authors of American or European guidelines on the topic. It is therefore a useful tool for many practitioners: cardiologists and cardiac imagers, cardiac surgeons, echocardiographers, specialists of internal medicine, neurologists, and infectiologists.§ ___Infective endocarditis (IE) is defined as an infection of the endocardial surface of the heart, which may include one or more heart valves, the mural endocardium, or a septal defect. Its intracardiac effects include severe valvular insufficiency, which may lead to intractable congestive heart failure and myocardial abscesses. If left untreated, IE is generally fatal.§IE is a changing disease with new diagnostic techniques, new therapeutic strategies, more frequent elderly people and patients with prosthetic valves of intravenous drug users. §

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Book category Books in English Medicine Clinical & internal medicine Cardiovascular medicine

• Full title: Infective Endocarditis
• Subtitle: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Imaging, Therapy and Prevention
• Author: Gilbert Habib
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 330
• EAN: 9783319324302
• ISBN: 3319324306
• ID: 02961384
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Weight: 6373 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. July 2016

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