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Endocarditis
Infective endocarditis (IE), a noncontagious infection of the endocardium and heart valves, has an incidence of 2.6 to 11.6 cases per 1 million people. The high in-hospital mortality rate remains approximately 20% despite medical and surgical advances. The contemporary epidemiology…