Poor oral health and hygiene habits in patients with infective endocarditis and previously identified predisposing cardiac condition: A prospective cohort study

Vanessa Moby,Sarah Millot,Marie-Line Erpelding,Edouard Euvrard, Geoffrey Bourgeois, Helene Martin-Thome,Catherine Chirouze,Pierre Tattevin,Christophe Strady,Nelly Agrinier,Francois Alla,Bernard Iung,Christine Selton-Suty,Bruno Hoen,Xavier Duval

JOURNAL OF INFECTION（2022）

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•Oral health and hygiene are suboptimal in patients with pre-identified risk of IE.•45% of the IE that developed in patients at risk of IE were due to oral pathogens.•There is a clear need to improve oral health of patients at risk of IE.

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