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Infective endocarditis in a 52-year-old male patient with vegetations of all four heart valves and extremely high cardiac operative risk
Paweł Maeser1, Robert Morawiec1, Jarosław Drożdż1
Affiliations- 2nd Cardiology Department, Chair of Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Diseases, Medical University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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Vol 80, No 2 (2022)
Clinical vignette
Published online: 2021-12-29
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Infective endocarditis in a 52-year-old male patient with vegetations of all four heart valves and extremely high cardiac operative risk
Journal
Kardiologia Polska (Polish Heart Journal)
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Clinical vignette
Pages
229-230
Published online
2021-12-29
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DOI
10.33963/KP.a2021.0191
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Kardiol Pol 2022;80(2):229-230.
Authors
Paweł Maeser
Robert Morawiec
Jarosław Drożdż
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