title: Prognosis of native valve infective endocarditis: a review of 253 cases.
abstract: Forty years after the first 'recoveries' obtained by antibiotherapy and twenty years after the first success of early valvular replacement, the mortality of infective endocarditis (IE) is still significant. The present study has been undertaken to clarify the factors which influence the prognosis of IE.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000150:complications; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D004698:Endocarditis, Subacute Bacterial / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000401:mortality; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000401:mortality