%0 Journal Article %T Original research article: Native aortic versus mitral valve infective endocarditis: a nationwide registry study %A Abel Van Vlasselaer %A Johan Nilsson %A Lars Olaison %A Magnus Rasmussen %A Sigurdur Ragnarsson %J Archive of "Open Heart". %D 2019 %R 10.1136/openhrt-2018-000926 %X Native aortic and mitral valve infective endocarditis (AVE and MVE, respectively) are usually grouped together as left-sided native valve infective endocarditis (LNVE), while the differences between AVE and MVE have not yet been properly investigated. We aimed to compare AVE and MVE in regard to patient characteristics, microbiology and determinants of survival %K endocarditis %K left-sided native valve infective endocarditis %K surgery %K outcome %K microbiology %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6443117/