TY - BOOK AU - Asim Elmahi Abdelrahim Karrar AU - Hussien Hassan Rizk , AU - Wafaa Anwar Alaroussy , AU - Walid Abdelsalam Ammar , TI - Case - control study of potential culprit procedures for infective endocarditis in Egyptian tertiary care center / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Asim Elmahi Abdelrahim Karrar , KW - Endocarditis KW - Infective KW - Potential N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 ) UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -