Future Microbiol. 2008;3(3):341-349. © 2008 Future Medicine Ltd. Cite this: Getting to the Heart of the Problem: Serological and Molecular Techniques in the ...

SAN ANTONIO -- In response to the opioid epidemic, a primer to treating infective endocarditis (IE) specifically related to drug use was released by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). A workforce ...

Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment, acute infective endocarditis remains a therapeutic challenge, with considerable morbidity and mortality. The therapeutic strategies for this condition are ...

Background A 26-year-old man with known but untreated ventricular septal defect was admitted to the emergency ward with abdominal pain, fever and weight loss. Transthoracic echocardiography showed ...

A European study has shown that vegetation length is a strong predictor of embolism and mortality after initiation of antibiotics in patients with infective endocarditis (IE). In combination with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with infective endocarditis, a vegetation size of greater than 10 mm was associated with higher ...

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 ...

In patients with vegetative endocarditis related to cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), extracting the lead along with percutaneous mechanical debulking via vacuum aspiration of ...

Endocarditis is a rare, potentially fatal infection of the endocardium, or inner lining of the heart. It is usually caused by bacteria traveling through the bloodstream to the heart and is treated by ...

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 ...

Isolated pulmonary-valve endocarditis is quite rare, but it shares demographic, clinical, and microbiologic features with the more-common tricuspid endocarditis. 1 We describe a 35-year-old ...