Endocarditis, or infective endocarditis, is a rare infection of the inner lining of the heart’s chambers and valves. It is a serious condition that requires immediate medical attention, but it is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Endocarditis is a rare, life-threatening inflammation of the lining of the heart muscle and its valves. It is caused by a bacterial infection. Although it can occur in anyone, it is much more common ...

A Swedish study spanning 14 years of hospital records is strengthening the argument that numerous types of invasive medical procedures—everything from surgery to blood transfusion—do, in fact, ...

According to an investigation in the November 23/30 issue of JAMA, approximately two-thirds of individuals with heart failure and infective endocarditis receive valvular surgery, which is associated ...

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 ...

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

People who inject drugs are dying at an alarming rate from endocarditis, a serious but treatable heart-valve infection. But their odds of survival improve dramatically, even five years after their ...

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 ...

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 ...