ALLMedicine™ Infective Endocarditis Center

Aug 3rd, 2020 - Enterococcus faecalis infective endocarditis (EFIE) is a severe disease of increasing incidence. The objective was to analyze whether the outcome of patients with native valve EFIE (NVEFIE) treated with a short course of ampicillin plus ceftriaxon...

Aug 3rd, 2020 - Infective endocarditis (IE) remains a severe illness with high mortality rate, despite advances in antibiotic therapy and cardiac surgery. If infectious bacteria and platelets are two key players of human IE vegetation developmental process, their...

Aug 2nd, 2020 - Utility of 18F-FDG PET/CT in diagnosing infective endocarditis (IE) associated with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) is not well established. Current ESC guidelines recommend the use of FDG-PET imaging in patients with CIEDs and posi...

Jul 30th, 2020 - Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) is recognized as an infection that is difficult to treat and with high risk of device related infection. Extraction/explantation of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) is recommended in SAB patient...

Jul 27th, 2020 - We determined the incidence, clinical characteristics, and risk factors of post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)-associated infective endocarditis (IE). We compared the incidence of IE after TAVR versus after surgical aortic valve rep...

Sep 17th, 2019 - An alarming number of people nationwide are developing infections of either the heart’s inner lining or valves, known as infective endocarditis, in large part, due to the current opioid epidemic. This new trend predominantly affects young, white, ...

Jul 9th, 2019 - JCS 2017 Guideline on Prevention and Treatment of Infective Endocarditis.|2019|Nakatani S,Ohara T,Ashihara K,Izumi C,Iwanaga S,|standards,diagnosis,microbiology,prevention & control,therapy,

Jan 29th, 2019 - There has been a recent sharp rise in opioid-related deaths in the United States. Intravenous opioid use can lead to infective endocarditis (IE) which can result in stroke. There are scant data on recent trends in this neurological complication of...

Apr 3rd, 2017 - 2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) consensus guidelines: Surgical treatment of infective endocarditis: Executive summary.|2017| ,Pettersson GB,Coselli JS, ,Pettersson GB,|therapeutic use,standards,diagnosis,etiology,surgery,...

Sep 16th, 2015 - Infective Endocarditis in Childhood: 2015 Update: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.|2015|Baltimore RS,Gewitz M,Baddour LM,Beerman LB,Jackson MA,|physiology,blood,therapeutic use,complications,microbiology,diagnosis,microb...

Aug 3rd, 2020 - Enterococcus faecalis infective endocarditis (EFIE) is a severe disease of increasing incidence. The objective was to analyze whether the outcome of patients with native valve EFIE (NVEFIE) treated with a short course of ampicillin plus ceftriaxon...

Aug 3rd, 2020 - Infective endocarditis (IE) remains a severe illness with high mortality rate, despite advances in antibiotic therapy and cardiac surgery. If infectious bacteria and platelets are two key players of human IE vegetation developmental process, their...

Aug 2nd, 2020 - Utility of 18F-FDG PET/CT in diagnosing infective endocarditis (IE) associated with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) is not well established. Current ESC guidelines recommend the use of FDG-PET imaging in patients with CIEDs and posi...

Jul 30th, 2020 - Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) is recognized as an infection that is difficult to treat and with high risk of device related infection. Extraction/explantation of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) is recommended in SAB patient...

Jul 27th, 2020 - We determined the incidence, clinical characteristics, and risk factors of post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)-associated infective endocarditis (IE). We compared the incidence of IE after TAVR versus after surgical aortic valve rep...

Oct 7th, 2019 - (Reuters Health) - As the opioid epidemic continues in the U.S., more cases of an infection that damages the heart are being seen, researchers say. FILE PHOTO: A full syringe, empty syringe and spoon sit on the roof of the car in which a man in hi...

Oct 3rd, 2019 - PARIS – The risk of infective endocarditis following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for the treatment of severe aortic stenosis proved to be the same as after surgical replacement in a French national propensity score–matched study.

Sep 18th, 2019 - Hospitalizations for infective endocarditis associated with drug abuse doubled in the United States from 2002 to 2016, in a trend investigators call “alarming,” and link to a concurrent rise in opioid abuse. Patients tend to be younger, poorer whi.

Sep 17th, 2019 - An alarming number of people nationwide are developing infections of either the heart’s inner lining or valves, known as infective endocarditis, in large part, due to the current opioid epidemic. This new trend predominantly affects young, white, ...

Aug 1st, 2019 - Limitations of nuclear studies Both FDG-PET and leukocyte scintigraphy perform poorly for detecting native-valve infective endocarditis. In a study in which 90% of the patients had native-valve infective endocarditis according to the Duke criteria.