Nosocomial cardiac infections

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1991 • 440 citations

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1993 • 426 citations

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1988 • 243 citations

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1986 • 180 citations

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1991 • 179 citations

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1993 • 175 citations

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1992 • 150 citations

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Prosthetic valve endocarditis

1986 • 136 citations

Infectious Complications in Left Ventricular Assist Device Recipients

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1995 • 111 citations

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1980 • 110 citations

Hospital-Acquired Infective Endocarditis

1988 • 109 citations

Increasing frequency of staphylococcal infective endocarditis. Experience at a university hospital, 1981 through 1988

1990 • 107 citations

Plasmid pattern analysis of Staphylococcal epidermidis isolates from patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis

1982 • 103 citations

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1986 • 100 citations

Actuarial Analysis of the Risk of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis in 1,598 Patients With Mechanical and Bioprosthetic Valves

1985 • 93 citations

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1985 • 93 citations

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1994 • 86 citations

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1995 • 82 citations

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1997 • 79 citations

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1989 • 76 citations

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1985 • 72 citations

Prospective randomised comparison of single-dose versus multiple-dose cefuroxime for prophylaxis in coronary artery bypass grafting

1994 • 71 citations

Increasing Frequency of Staphylococcal Infective Endocarditis

1990 • 60 citations

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC DETECTION OF CARDIAC VALVE VEGETATIONS AND PROGNOSTIC IMPLICATIONS

1993 • 60 citations

Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis

1986 • 57 citations

New perspectives in the diagnosis of systemic fungal infections

1999 • 46 citations

A comparison of hospital and community-acquired infective endocarditis

1992 • 44 citations

Echocardiographic assessment of prosthetic valve endocarditis

1995 • 44 citations

Antibiotic prophylaxis in cardiac operations

1993 • 42 citations

Nosocomial infective endocarditis

2000 • 41 citations

INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS

1993 • 38 citations

Hospital-Acquired Bacterial Endocarditis

1963 • 36 citations

Nosocomial Endocarditis

1984 • 35 citations

Amphotericin B preparations: a maximum tolerated dose in severe invasive fungal infections?

2000 • 34 citations

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1993 • 34 citations

POSTCARDIAC SURGERY INFECTIONS

1998 • 30 citations

Clinical Presentation and Analysis of Risk Factors for Infectious Complications of Implantable Cardioverter‐Defibrillator Implantations at a University Medical Center

1998 • 29 citations

Treatment of Endocarditis Due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa with Imipenem

1992 • 27 citations

An outbreak of Candida parapsilosis prosthetic valve endocarditis following cardiac surgery

1994 • 25 citations

SHORT-COURSE COMBINATION AND ORAL THERAPIES OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS ENDOCARDITIS

1993 • 24 citations

Enterococcus faecalis colonisation and endocarditis in five intensive care patients as late sequelae of selective decontamination

1995 • 21 citations

Endocarditis associated with prosthetic cardiac valves

1990 • 20 citations

Early-onset prosthetic valve endocarditis

1993 • 14 citations

Increasing incidence of coagulase negative staphylococcal endocarditis

1998 • 4 citations

Infective endocarditis: Evaluation of the duke criteria and transoesophageal echocardiography for the diagnosis of endocarditis

1998 • 3 citations