Cumulative Incidence of Infective Endocarditis in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease: A Nationwide, Case-Control Study Over Nine Decades.

Ulrika Snygg-MartinKok Wai GiangMikael DellborgJosefina RobertsonZacharias Mandalenakis

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)

Infective endocarditis remains an important complication in patients with CHD. Incidence correlate with age and the number of IE episodes are expected to increase as the CHD population grow older.

Keyphrases

congenital heart disease
risk factors
physical activity
cross sectional