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Disease endocarditis
Phenotype C0018799|heart diseases
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PubMedID- 22584639 This study investigated 56 normal voluntary subjects (control group) without cardiac disease and 148 voluntary subjects with heart diseases (46 cases with negative blood-culture endocarditis, 29 with relevant cardiac arrhythmias and 73 with chronic chagas cardiomyopathy) between 2004-2008. these subjects were assessed and selected by cardiologists from brazil and argentina.
PubMedID- 21176981 A stepwise logistic regression analysis revealed that the presence of a perivalvular abscess, heart failure and a change in the antibiotics were independent determinant factors for the need for surgical treatment of active infective endocarditis in patients with congenital heart diseases.

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