%0 Journal Article
%T D-Dimer is a strong predictor of in-hospital mortality in patients with infective endocarditis
%A Demet Menek£¿e Gerede Uluda£¿
%A H¨¹seyin G£¿ks¨¹l¨¹k
%A Mustafa K£¿l£¿£¿kap
%A Veysel £¿zg¨¹r Bar£¿£¿
%A £¿etin Erol
%J Archive of "Anatolian Journal of Cardiology".
%D 2019
%R 10.14744/AnatolJCardiol.2018.56752
%X Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare disease with a high mortality. Therefore, prognostic markers can play an important role in the follow-up. In this study, we investigated the relationship between the D-dimer (DD) level and in-hospital mortality and complications in patients with IE, because DD indicates both the fibrin turnover in vegetation and the autoimmune inflammatory response in patients with IE
%K infective endocarditis
%K embolization
%K D-dimer
%K death
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6457398/