Partial Oral versus Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment of Endocarditis.
Kasper IversenNikolaj IhlemannSabine U GillTrine MadsenHanne ElmingKaare T JensenNiels E BruunDan E HøfstenKurt FurstedJens J ChristensenMartin SchultzChristine F KleinEmil L FosbøllFlemming RosenvingeHenrik C SchønheyderLars KøberChristian Torp-PedersenJannik Helweg-LarsenNiels TønderClaus MoserHenning BundgaardPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2018)
In patients with endocarditis on the left side of the heart who were in stable condition, changing to oral antibiotic treatment was noninferior to continued intravenous antibiotic treatment. (Funded by the Danish Heart Foundation and others; POET ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01375257 .).
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