Fig 1. Flowchart showing selection of patients in this study.
ICU: intensive care unit, ACS: acute coronary syndrome, CMP: cardiomyopathy, PTE: pulmonary thromboembolism, IE: infective endocarditis (some patients were overlapped).
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