Asim Elmahi Abdelrahim Karrar <br/><br/>
Case - control study of potential culprit procedures for infective endocarditis in Egyptian tertiary care center /  
 دراسة تحكمية للعوامل المحتمل تسببها فى التهاب صمامات القلب الميكروبى لدى المصريين 
Asim Elmahi Abdelrahim Karrar ; Supervised Hussien Hassan Rizk , Wafaa Anwar Alaroussy , Walid Abdelsalam Ammar 
 - Cairo :   Asim Elmahi Abdelrahim Karrar ,   2012 
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<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology 
<br/><br/> This study involved 175 patients with definite IE according to modified Duke Criteria for diagnosis of IE from 3 / 2005 till 6 / 2008 from the IE database of cardiology department at Cairo University Hospital , and 175 control cases with same age and sex . Control cases were collected on base of maximum available matching to IE cases in term of : age , gender , and major etiological confounding factors such as underlying known heart disease , prosthetic valves , congenital heart disease and others not know to have one of the these dieases ( normal valve ) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Endocarditis  Infective  Potential