Chemoprophylaxis of endocarditis in dental practice

Knoll-Khler, E.

Zwr 98(3): 246-252

1989


ISSN/ISBN: 0044-166X
PMID: 2534008
Document Number: 336325
The mortality of patients with bacterial endocarditis is still high in spite of great progress made in cardiac surgery. Dental diseases and their treatment are discussed as a cause for endocarditis induced by Streptococcus viridanz. Thus the dentist plays an important role in the prophylaxis of bacterial endocarditis in cardiac risk patients.

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