Validation of Endoscore. Reply to Dr Barca

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Disease, University of L'Aquila, Italy. Electronic address: mdimauro1973@gmail.com.
² Department of Cardiac Surgery, S. Croce Cuneo, Italy.

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Michele Di Mauro et al. Int J Cardiol. 2018.

. 2018 Sep 15:267:197.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.05.120.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Disease, University of L'Aquila, Italy. Electronic address: mdimauro1973@gmail.com.
² Department of Cardiac Surgery, S. Croce Cuneo, Italy.

No abstract available

Keywords: Endocarditis; Risk score; Valve surgery.

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A predictive model for early mortality after surgical treatment of heart valve or prosthesis infective endocarditis. The EndoSCORE.
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External validation of the new predictive model for early mortality after surgical treatment of infective endocarditis: Analysis of the reliability of EndoSCORE.
Varela Barca L, López-Menéndez J, Redondo Palacios A, Rodríguez-Roda J. Varela Barca L, et al. Int J Cardiol. 2018 Oct 1;268:99. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.04.099. Epub 2018 Jun 20. Int J Cardiol. 2018. PMID: 29934231 No abstract available.