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SUBMITTER: Ostergaard L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7519559 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Østergaard Lauge L Smerup Morten Holdgaard MH Iversen Kasper K Jensen Andreas Dalsgaard AD Dahl Anders A Chamat-Hedemand Sandra S Bruun Niels Eske NE Butt Jawad Haider JH Bundgaard Henning H Torp-Pedersen Christian C Køber Lars L Fosbøl Emil E
BMC infectious diseases 20200925 1
<h4>Background</h4>Infective endocarditis (IE) is associated with high mortality. Surgery may improve survival and reduce complications, but the balance between benefit and harm is difficult and may be closely related to age and type of surgical intervention. We aimed to examine how age and type of left-sided surgical intervention modified mortality in patients undergoing surgery for IE.<h4>Methods</h4>By crosslinking nationwide Danish registries we identified patients with first-time IE undergo ...[more]