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 ...

Infective endocarditis (IE) is by far the most common cardiovascular infection worldwide. Despite the medical and surgical advances, this condition remains associated with considerable mortality and ...

When should I order two-dimensional echocardiography to rule out endocarditis in a patient with staphylococcal bacteremia—at the outset or not until after verifying additional positive blood cultures ...

Excluding fever from the 2023 Duke-ISCVID criteria led to improvements in diagnostic specificity for infective endocarditis.

Posterior mitral valve leaflet aneurysms are extremely rare complications of infective endocarditis of the aortic valve. Destruction of the aortic valve results in a regurgitant jet that strikes the ...

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A 54-year-old healthy woman was diagnosed with a rare case of infective endocarditis after developing an acute ischemic stroke five weeks after having a tooth extracted. The case report was published ...

A case of right-sided endocarditis clearly associated with the presence of a right atrial catheter is presented, and the literature on septicemia and endocarditis associated with central venous and ...

Endocarditis is inflammation in the heart’s inner lining. One possible symptom is splinter hemorrhages, thin red or reddish-brown lines under the fingernails. These lines appear when small blood ...

Post‐Market Surveillance Study of Paclitaxel‐Eluting Nitinol Stents for Treating FemoropoplitealArtery Disease in Japan: 12‐Month Results Receive the the latest news, research, and presentations from ...