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Ethical controversies related to the care of an intravenous drug abuser with endocarditis
Introduction Infective endocarditis (IE) is a bacterial or fungal infection of the heart valves and lining that Jean François Fernel first mentioned nearly 500 years ago (1554). William Osler described the disease in detail in a series of lectures in…