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  • Title: [The current course and treatment of infectious endocarditis].
    Author: Tiurin VP, Akimkin VG, Tikhonov IuG.
    Journal: Voen Med Zh; 1998 Sep; 319(9):44-9, 95. PubMed ID: 9817016.
    Abstract:
    Clinical study of 172 patients treated in the Burdenko Military Hospital for subacute infectious endocarditis in 1980-1996 compared with 192 cases in 1950-1979. Contemporary course of the disease is attended by a few symptoms, primordiality and single-valve affection. On the grounds of antibiotics sensitivity of the most prevalent infection agents discovered in 1996, the article develops some schemes of antibacterial therapy for Streptococcus, Enterococcus and staphylococcal etiology of disease. Rational antibiotic therapy together with surgery measures reduced lethality to 14.3% for Streptococcus endocarditis, to 16.7%--for Enterococcus and to 34.4%--for Staphylococcus.
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