Contract with the patient with injection drug use and infective endocarditis: Surgeons perspective

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¹ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
² Department of Infectious Disease, Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Alcohol and Drug Recovery Center, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁴ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Syed T Hussain et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2017 Dec.

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. 2017 Dec;154(6):2002-2003.

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.08.004.

¹ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
² Department of Infectious Disease, Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Alcohol and Drug Recovery Center, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁴ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Contracts with people who inject drugs following valve surgery: Unrealistic and misguided expectations.
Wurcel AG, Yu S, Pacheco M, Warner K. Wurcel AG, et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2017 Dec;154(6):2002. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.07.020. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2017. PMID: 29132892 No abstract available.