Revisiting Ethical Considerations in Recurrent Injection Drug Use-Related Infective Endocarditis

Sarah C Hull^{1

2}, Farid Jadbabaie^{1

3}, Melissa B Weimer^{4

5}, Marjorie Golden⁶, Prashanth Vallabhajosyula⁷, Lynda E Rosenfeld¹

Affiliations

¹ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Program for Biomedical Ethics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Program in Addiction Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁶ Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁷ Section of Cardiac Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

Editorial

Sarah C Hull et al. Ann Thorac Surg Short Rep. 2023.

. 2023 Mar 13;1(2):369-371.

doi: 10.1016/j.atssr.2023.02.025. eCollection 2023 Jun.

Sarah C Hull^{1

2}, Farid Jadbabaie^{1

3}, Melissa B Weimer^{4

5}, Marjorie Golden⁶, Prashanth Vallabhajosyula⁷, Lynda E Rosenfeld¹

¹ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Program for Biomedical Ethics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Program in Addiction Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁶ Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁷ Section of Cardiac Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

No abstract available

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