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European Heart Journal 2003 24(17):1539-1540; doi:10.1016/S0195-668X(03)00344-0
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Editorial

The growing burden of infective endocarditis in the elderly

A Vahanian*

Cardiology Department, Bichat Hospital, Paris, France

* Corresponding author. Dr A. Vahanian, Hopital Bichat, Service de Cardiologie, 46 rue Henri-Huchard, 75018 Paris, France. Tel.: +33-1-40-25-67-60; fax: +33-1-40-25-67-32
E-mail address: alec.vahanian@bch.ap-hop-paris.fr

Received 17 June 2003; revised 17 June 2003; accepted 19 June 2003

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See doi:10.1016/S1095-668X(03)00309-9for the article to which this editorial refers

Infective endocarditis is a rare disease which still carries a severe prognosis partly because of changes in epidemiology due to the growing number of patients with a high risk profile. In this respect there is an growing proportion of elderly patients with infective endocarditis related to the increase in life expectancy in industrialised countries. As an illustration the patients over 70 represent 26% of the cases with infective endocarditis in the Euro Heart Survey . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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