ALLMedicine™ Infective Endocarditis Center

Oct 24th, 2020 - As data and recommendations regarding antibiotic prophylaxis in dermatologic surgery vary, we tried to describe the effect of antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) in Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) on infective endocarditis, prosthetic joint infection, and...

Oct 23rd, 2020 - Valve surgery in tricuspid-valve infective endocarditis is controversial in people who inject drugs (PWID) due to perceived risks of reinfection due to recidivism. The study objective was to compare outcomes of percutaneous mechanical aspiration (...

Oct 21st, 2020 - In rare cases of extensive aortic root or mitral valve infective endocarditis (IE), severe calcification of the aortic and mitral valves, or double-valve procedures in patients with small aortic and mitral annuli, surgical reconstruction of the in...

Oct 20th, 2020 - There are some conclusive evidences on infective endocarditis and its poor prognosis in the background of end-stage renal disease in patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis; however the findings on the risk of infective endocarditis and its long-...

Oct 19th, 2020 - Prosthetic valve infective endocarditis is a feared and potentially catastrophic complication of valvular intervention. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation has transformed the modern management of aortic stenosis and vastly altered the demogra...

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, ...

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...

Sep 16th, 2015 - Infective endocarditis is a potentially lethal disease that has undergone major changes in both host and pathogen. The epidemiology of infective endocarditis has become more complex with today's myriad healthcare-associated factors that predispose...

Oct 24th, 2020 - As data and recommendations regarding antibiotic prophylaxis in dermatologic surgery vary, we tried to describe the effect of antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) in Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) on infective endocarditis, prosthetic joint infection, and...

Oct 23rd, 2020 - Valve surgery in tricuspid-valve infective endocarditis is controversial in people who inject drugs (PWID) due to perceived risks of reinfection due to recidivism. The study objective was to compare outcomes of percutaneous mechanical aspiration (...

Oct 21st, 2020 - In rare cases of extensive aortic root or mitral valve infective endocarditis (IE), severe calcification of the aortic and mitral valves, or double-valve procedures in patients with small aortic and mitral annuli, surgical reconstruction of the in...

Oct 20th, 2020 - There are some conclusive evidences on infective endocarditis and its poor prognosis in the background of end-stage renal disease in patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis; however the findings on the risk of infective endocarditis and its long-...

Oct 19th, 2020 - Prosthetic valve infective endocarditis is a feared and potentially catastrophic complication of valvular intervention. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation has transformed the modern management of aortic stenosis and vastly altered the demogra...

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.

Mar 8th, 2019 - Atopic dermatitis at 1 year is linked with persistent food allergies. The incidence of treated depression is nearly 100% higher in patients with multiple sclerosis.