Population
68 children with infective endocarditis, divided into two cohorts, living in France.
Design
Cohort
Authors
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Improved survival in pediatric infective endocarditis accompanies persistent cardiac morbidity; extends prior trends but leaves open optimal long-term strategies in congenital disease.
Over a 20-year period, pediatric infective endocarditis increasingly involved congenital heart disease and prior surgeries, with decreasing mortality but significant residual cardiac morbidity.
Normand et al. (1995) studied this question.
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