Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Association Between Surgical Indications, Operative Risk, and Clinical Outcome in Infective Endocarditis: A Prospective Study From the International Collaboration on Endocarditis"

Affiliations

¹ Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
² Barwon Health and Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
³ Hospital Louis Pradel, Lyon-Bron, France.
⁴ Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation, Brno, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁵ Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, and Unigranrio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁶ Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clinic - IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ OhioHealth Heart and Vascular Physicians, Columbus, OH.
⁸ Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
⁹ University Hospital, Amiens, FranceINSERM U-1088, University of Picardie, Amiens, France.
¹⁰ Internal Medicine, University of Naples SUN, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy.
¹¹ Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
¹² Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹³ Cairo University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
¹⁴ University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia.
¹⁵ Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
¹⁶ Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

Comment

Vivian H Chu et al. Circulation. 2015.

. 2015 Oct 6;132(14):e184-5.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.016782.

¹ Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
² Barwon Health and Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
³ Hospital Louis Pradel, Lyon-Bron, France.
⁴ Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation, Brno, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁵ Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, and Unigranrio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁶ Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clinic - IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ OhioHealth Heart and Vascular Physicians, Columbus, OH.
⁸ Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
⁹ University Hospital, Amiens, FranceINSERM U-1088, University of Picardie, Amiens, France.
¹⁰ Internal Medicine, University of Naples SUN, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy.
¹¹ Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
¹² Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹³ Cairo University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
¹⁴ University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia.
¹⁵ Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
¹⁶ Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

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Comment on

Association between surgical indications, operative risk, and clinical outcome in infective endocarditis: a prospective study from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis.
Chu VH, Park LP, Athan E, Delahaye F, Freiberger T, Lamas C, Miro JM, Mudrick DW, Strahilevitz J, Tribouilloy C, Durante-Mangoni E, Pericas JM, Fernández-Hidalgo N, Nacinovich F, Rizk H, Krajinovic V, Giannitsioti E, Hurley JP, Hannan MM, Wang A; International Collaboration on Endocarditis (ICE) Investigators*. Chu VH, et al. Circulation. 2015 Jan 13;131(2):131-40. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.012461. Epub 2014 Dec 5. Circulation. 2015. PMID: 25480814
Letter by Almendro-Delia et al Regarding Article, "Association Between Surgical Indications, Operative Risk, and Clinical Outcome in Infective Endocarditis: A Prospective Study From the International Collaboration on Endocarditis".
Almendro-Delia M, Gálvez-Acebal J, Rodríguez-Baño J. Almendro-Delia M, et al. Circulation. 2015 Oct 6;132(14):e183. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.014804. Circulation. 2015. PMID: 26438776 No abstract available.