In-hospital mortality risk factors for patients with cerebral vascular events in infectious endocarditis. A correlative study of clinical, echocardiographic, microbiologic and neuroimaging findings.

CONCLUSIONS: In patients with IE complicated with stroke, the number of lesions observed in neuroimaging examinations and conservative treatment were associated with higher in-hospital mortality. PMID: 26031364 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Archivos de Cardiologia de Mexico - May 29, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: González-Melchor L, Kimura-Hayama E, Díaz-Zamudio M, Higuera-Calleja J, Choque C, Soto-Nieto GI Tags: Arch Cardiol Mex Source Type: research