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Comparative Study
. 2020 Nov;13(11):2470-2471.
doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2020.07.027. Epub 2020 Aug 18.

A Plea Not to Forget Infective Endocarditis in COVID-19 Era

Bernard Cosyns, Andreea Motoc, Florent Arregle, Gilbert Habib
Comparative Study

A Plea Not to Forget Infective Endocarditis in COVID-19 Era

Bernard Cosyns et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 Nov.
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Figure 1
Infective Endocarditis Number During COVID-19 Pandemic Versus the Same Time Frame in 2019 Bar chart displaying the decrease in the number of patients diagnosed with infective endocarditis during COVID-19 (coronavirus disease-2019) pandemic period compared with the same time frame in 2019.
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