Endocarditis - References

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  1. Bonow RO, et al. (2006) ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing committee to revise the 1998 Guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease). Developed in collaboration with the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists: Endorsed by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Circulation, 114(5): e84–e231.

Other Works Consulted

  • Anderson JF, et al. (2004). Infective endocarditis. In V Fuster et al., eds., Hurst's The Heart, 11th ed., vol. 2, pp. 2001–2034. New York: McGraw-Hill.

  • Baddour LM, et al. (2005). Infective endocarditis: Diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, and management of complications: A statement for healthcare professionals from the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and the Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Stroke, and Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, American Heart Association: Endorsed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Circulation, 111(4): 394–434.

  • Durack DT, Karchmer AW (2004). Infective endocarditis. In DC Dale, DD Federman, eds., ACP Medicine, section 7, chap. 18. New York: WebMD.

  • Ferrieri P, et al. (2002). Unique features of infective endocarditis in childhood. Circulation, 105(17): 2115–2127.

  • Karchmer AW (2004). Infective endocarditis. In DP Zipes et al., eds., Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 7th ed., pp. 1633–1658. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders.

  • Taubert KA, Dajani AS (1998). Preventing bacterial endocarditis: American Heart Association guidelines. American Family Physician, 57(3): 457–468.

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