The impact of early surgery on mortality in infective endocarditis complicated by heart failure - How much more data do we need?

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Ofer Havakuk et al. Eur J Heart Fail. 2022 Jul.

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. 2022 Jul;24(7):1266-1268.

doi: 10.1002/ejhf.2567. Epub 2022 Jun 14.

¹ Division of Cardiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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