Endocarditis is a life-threatening disease that involves inflammation of the endocardium, heart valve, and vascular intima. Endocarditis is caused by pathogenic bacteria - around 90% of the cases are ...

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2008;27(7):647-648. From the beginning, the scientific basis for recommendations for endocarditis prophylaxis was not well established. The evidence supporting prophylaxis ...

Infective endocarditis is an infection in the heart valves or endocardium. The endocardium is the lining of the interior surfaces of the chambers of the heart. This condition is usually caused by ...

In an attempt to evaluate the magnitude and significance of recent changes in the clinical pattern of bacterial endocarditis and to assess the influence of both host and bacterial factors on this ...

Anemia and transfusion of red blood cells are common in patients undergoing valve surgery for infective endocarditis, and transfusion is linked to an increased risk for short- and long-term mortality.

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare but often deadly complication for patients whose aortic stenosis is treated with a transcatheter heart valve or with surgery, according to a new analysis of ...

Patients with endocarditis caused by common bacteria can be treated effectively and safely with oral antibiotics once they have been stabilized on an intravenous course of therapy, data from the POET ...

The rarity of endocarditis due to Klebsiella species limits its recognition and awareness of its often malignant course. We describe two recent cases of Klebsiella pneumoniae endocarditis and review ...

Danish hospitals logged alarmingly high mid-term mortality rates in infective endocarditis (IE) despite improvements in identifying culprit pathogens in recent years, sending a warning to other ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There has been a dramatic increase in the number of staphylococcal bacteremias and cases of infective ...

A strange bump on a 27-year-old man's hand turned out to indicate a serious health issue. The man told medical staff that in addition to the odd lump, he'd recently lost 26 pounds and had been dealing ...

Endocarditis is an infection of the heart’s inner lining, the endocardium. However, in some cases, endocarditis may also be non-infective. In non-infective endocarditis or nonbacterial thrombic ...