Clinical presentation, microbiology, and prognostic factors of prosthetic valve endocarditis. Lessons learned from a large prospective registry

• Antonio Ramos-Martínez ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aramos220@gmail.com

  Affiliations Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Spain, Instituto Investigación Sanitaria Puerta de Hierro—Segovia de Arana (IDIPHSA), Majadahonda, Spain, Autonomous University of Madrid, Majadahonda, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4840-9425

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• Fernando Domínguez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Spain

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• Patricia Muñoz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Spain, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University General Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias-CIBERES (CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Mercedes Marín,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University General Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias-CIBERES (CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain

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• Álvaro Pedraz,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University General Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5722-4684

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• Mª Carmen Fariñas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla-IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas-CIBERINFEC (CB21/13/00068), Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

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• Valentín Tascón,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain

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• Arístides de Alarcón,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Infectious Diseases Research Group Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), Seville, Spain, University of Seville/CSIC/University, Seville, Spain, Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain

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• Raquel Rodríguez-García,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Intensive Medicine, University Hospital Central of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

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• José María Miró,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8057-7755

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• Josune Goikoetxea,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital de Cruces, Bilbao, Spain

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• Guillermo Ojeda-Burgos,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, Spain

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• Francesc Escrihuela-Vidal,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, Research Institut of Biomedicine of Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain

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• Jorge Calderón-Parra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Spain, Instituto Investigación Sanitaria Puerta de Hierro—Segovia de Arana (IDIPHSA), Majadahonda, Spain

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• On behalf of the GAMES investigators

  ¶GAMES investigators are provided in Appendix (S1 Data).

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