Brusch J (2007) Surgical Treatment of Native Valve and Prosthetic Valve Infective Endocarditis Infective Endocarditis: Management in the Era of Intravascular Devices, 10.3109/9781420019834.015, ...

Infective endocarditis (ie, the infection of a native or prosthetic heart valve, the endocardium or implanted cardiac device1) is a clinical chameleon whose epidemiology and natural history are in ...