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Assessment of clinical severity in patients with infective endocarditis with cardio-embolic strokes
We sincerely thank Biteker et al. for their interest in our study to suggest a possible association of stroke severity with clinical outcomes in patients with infective endocarditis (IE) with cerebral complications regardless of whether early surgery or conventional treatment. They recommended us to use National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score to evaluate this issue as recently reported by Murai et al. [1], while a necessity of patient's answer to several inquiries for a measurement of NIHSS score had imposed major limitations on analyzing our data retrospectively.
Source: International Journal of Cardiology - March 10, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Makoto Suzuki, Shuichiro Takanashi Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research