Comprehensive Assessment of the Risk of Symptomatic Embolism in Patients With Infective Endocarditis.

In secondary analysis where the measure for vegetation length was replaced in the full model by dichotomized length (≥10 mm versus <10 mm) or vegetation area (as a continuous variable), these alternative size variables showed similarly strong overall effects on embolic risk, although their differential effects by type of IE were only marginally significant (Table S3 ).

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