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Distant embolisation in infective endocarditis: characteristics and outcomes.

Mariëlle G J DuffelsTjeerd GermansAnnet Bos-SchaapOlivier DrexhageJiri F P WagenaarFriso M van der ZantMartine HoogewerfRemco J J KnolVictor A W M Umans
Published in: Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation (2023)
This registry-based single-centre experience showed an incidence of distant embolisation in daily care of 24%. Cerebral and coronary embolisation provoked symptoms, while visceral emboli remained silent. Pulmonary emboli may present with inflammatory signs. Distant embolisation was not in itself a contra-indication for outpatient endocarditis@home treatment.
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