Article
[The course of infectious endocarditis in IV drug abusers and in subjects predisposed to heart diseases].
Klinicheskaia meditsina - 1 Jan 2001
Mazurov V I, Ulanova V I
Abstract excerpt
40 patients with infective endocarditis (IE) abusing intravenous drugs (heroin, opium surrogates) and 9 IE patients predisposed to heart diseases were examined by Duke diagnostic criteria. IE in drug abusers is characterized by acute course of the disease with affection of the intact valves of th...
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