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High Risk of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis and Death After Valve Replacement Operations in Dialysis Patients  Danielle K. Farrington, MD, Patrick D. Kilgo,

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1 High Risk of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis and Death After Valve Replacement Operations in Dialysis Patients  Danielle K. Farrington, MD, Patrick D. Kilgo, MS, Vinod H. Thourani, MD, Jesse T. Jacob, MD, James P. Steinberg, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 101, Issue 6, Pages (June 2016) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier estimates of survival without prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) in each of the dialysis and non-dialysis shows a much higher rate of PVE in the dialysis group compared to the non-dialysis group. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier estimates shows that both short-term and long-term survival were significantly reduced in the dialysis group compared to the nondialysis group. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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