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http://hdl.handle.net/10668/11596| Title: | Infective endocarditis in patients with cancer: a consequence of invasive procedures or a harbinger of neoplasm?: A prospective, multicenter cohort. |
| Authors: | Fernández-Cruz, Ana Muñoz, Patricia Sandoval, Carmen Fariñas, Carmen Gutiérrez-Cuadra, Manuel Pericás Pulido, Juan M Miró, José M Goenaga-Sánchez, Miguel Á de Alarcón, Arístides Bonache-Bernal, Francisco Rodríguez, MªÁngeles Noureddine, Mariam Bouza Santiago, Emilio Spanish Collaboration on Endocarditis (GAMES) |
| metadata.dc.subject.mesh: | Aged Cross Infection Endocarditis Female Hospital Mortality Humans Male Middle Aged Neoplasms Prospective Studies Risk Factors Sex Factors |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| Abstract: | The aim of the study was to draw a comparison between the characteristics of infective endocarditis (IE) in patients with cancer and those of IE in noncancer patients.Patients with IE, according to the modified Duke criteria, were prospectively included in the GAMES registry between January 2008 and February 2014 in 30 hospitals. Patients with active cancer were compared with noncancer patients.During the study period, 161 episodes of IE fulfilled the inclusion criteria. We studied 2 populations: patients whose cancer was diagnosed before IE (73.9%) and those whose cancer and IE were diagnosed simultaneously (26.1%). The latter more frequently had community-acquired IE (67.5% vs 26.4%, P |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10668/11596 |
| metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1097/MD.0000000000007913 |
| Appears in Collections: | Producción 2020 |
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