This review highlights the high prevalence and understood mechanisms of left-sided infective endocarditis in chronic hemodialysis patients, contrasting it with the rare and poorly understood right-sided involvement.
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Alerts clinicians to predominant left-sided IE in hemodialysis patients; leaves open right-sided mechanisms and prevention strategies.
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