Population
Patients with prosthetic cardiac valves who develop bacteremia shortly after implantation
Design
Editorial
Authors
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Early post-implant bacteremia should not prompt automatic prosthetic valve endocarditis diagnosis; leaves open the need for refined diagnostic algorithms.
Highlights the diagnostic dilemma that bacteremia shortly after prosthetic valve implantation does not always indicate infection of the prosthesis.
Louis Weinstein (1972) studied this question.
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