ALLMedicine™ Infective Endocarditis Center

Aug 1st, 2021 - Bacterial and fungal infections, such as skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) and infective endocarditis (IE), are increasing among people who use drugs in the United States. Traditional healthcare settings can be inaccessible and unwelcoming t...

Jul 30th, 2021 - A 79-year-old male with a history of ESRD and treated MRSA endocarditis was found to have a recurrence of MRSA bacteremia. He was treated with antibiotics. During his hospitalization, he suddenly developed complete heart block requiring transcutan...

Jul 29th, 2021 - A 69-year-old Chinese man presented with exertional dyspnoea and subjective left upper limb weakness. Initial clinical impressions were community-acquired pneumonia and cerebrovascular accident. Further imaging studies revealed an incidental mitra...

Jul 27th, 2021 - Infective endocarditis (IE) occurs more frequently in individuals living with congenital heart disease, often with high morbidity and mortality. Although gram-positive bacterial infections commonly cause IE, prosthetic valves are a known risk fact...

Jul 25th, 2021 - Gemella morbillorum is increasingly implicated in infectious endocarditis. Our patient presented with anaemia and renal failure with evidence of infarcts and embolic disease. He was found to have endocarditis with an organism that could not specia...

May 8th, 2021 - Infective endocarditis can involve a normal, abnormal, or prosthetic cardiac valve. The diagnosis is typically made clinically with persistently positive blood cultures, characteristic signs and symptoms, and echocardiographic evidence of valvular...

Apr 4th, 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 17th, 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 17th, 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...

Sep 1st, 2015 - 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of infective endocarditis: The Task Force for the Management of Infective Endocarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Endorsed by: European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), the E...

Apr 15th, 2020 - Infective endocarditis is a potentially lethal disease that has undergone major changes over the last decades. The Duke Criteria are recommended for evaluation of probability of presence of infective endocarditis by current ESC guidelines. However...

Mar 4th, 2020 - The investigators assume a common standard deviation of 3.8 points and that a 1.4-point lower SOFA score in the Intervention Group is of clinical relevance.

Mar 2nd, 2020 - All the clinical, biological, microbiological and laboratory describing the history of patients and their evolution during hospitalization for infective endocarditis will be obtained from physicians supporting patients and recorded in an electroni...

Feb 28th, 2020 - Diagnostic accuracy of Infective endocarditis (IE) is commonly challenging. Current clinical guidelines recommend the use of the modified Duke criteria, based on clinical, echocardiographic and biological findings, as well as the results of blood ...

May 29th, 2019 - Infective endocarditis (IE) is associated with an overall in-hospital mortality rate of 15-25% and a high incidence of embolic events (20-50%). Leading causes of mortality are heart failure (HF) resulting from valve dysfunction, and stroke caused ...

May 6th, 2021 - Patients who suffer a stroke during hospitalization for infective endocarditis (IE) after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) have a dismal prognosis, with more than half dying during the index hospitalization and two thirds within the f...

Apr 27th, 2021 - One consequence of the ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States may be an increase in the number of hemorrhagic strokes caused by infective endocarditis, research suggests. Intravenous drug use (IVDU) can cause this bacterial infection of the ...

Apr 1st, 2021 - The occurrence of endocarditis in hemodialysis patients may be significantly higher than previously thought, but it is as lethal as ever, a new observational study suggests. Researchers examined data from patients with infective endocarditis from ...

Apr 3rd, 2020 - The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended a number of changes regarding the use of fosfomycin-based antibiotics, including recommending the suspension of use of pediatric and intramuscular formulations, following a review by the EMA's Co...

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.