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Endocarditis is a term used to describe acute or chronic inflammation of the cardiac chamber's interior. Although the most common cause of endocarditis is infectious agents, other rare causes of endocarditis can be encountered uncommonly.
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Al-Tubaikh, J.A. (2010). Endocarditis. In: Al-Tubaikh, J.A. (eds) Internal Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03709-2_29
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