ALLMedicine™ Infective Endocarditis Center

Jan 18th, 2021 - A 14 year-old boy developed infective endocarditis of the mitral valve caused by Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus and became comatose. Isolated basilar artery dissection was initially observed on the 3rd day by magnetic resonance imagin...

Jan 13th, 2021 - Percutaneous VDD leadless pacer implant post recent bioprosthetic tricuspid valve replacement for infective endocarditis.|2021|Del Corral MP,Covas P,Tracy C,Mercader M,Solomon A,|

Jan 13th, 2021 - Mortality in infective endocarditis (IE) is still high, and the long term prognosis remains uncertain. This study aimed to identify predictors of long-term mortality for any cause, adverse event rate, relapse rate, valvular and ventricular dysfunc...

Jan 8th, 2021 - Infective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening disease whose prognosis is often difficult to predict based on clinical data. Biomarkers have been shown to favorably affect disease management in a number of cardiac disorders. Aims of this retros...

Jan 8th, 2021 - To investigate the rate of colorectal neoplasms (CRNs) in patients who have Enterococcus faecalis infective endocarditis (EFIE) with available colonoscopies and to assess whether this is associated with the identification of a focus the infection....

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...

Jan 18th, 2021 - A 14 year-old boy developed infective endocarditis of the mitral valve caused by Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus and became comatose. Isolated basilar artery dissection was initially observed on the 3rd day by magnetic resonance imagin...

Jan 13th, 2021 - Percutaneous VDD leadless pacer implant post recent bioprosthetic tricuspid valve replacement for infective endocarditis.|2021|Del Corral MP,Covas P,Tracy C,Mercader M,Solomon A,|

Jan 13th, 2021 - Mortality in infective endocarditis (IE) is still high, and the long term prognosis remains uncertain. This study aimed to identify predictors of long-term mortality for any cause, adverse event rate, relapse rate, valvular and ventricular dysfunc...

Jan 8th, 2021 - Infective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening disease whose prognosis is often difficult to predict based on clinical data. Biomarkers have been shown to favorably affect disease management in a number of cardiac disorders. Aims of this retros...

Jan 8th, 2021 - To investigate the rate of colorectal neoplasms (CRNs) in patients who have Enterococcus faecalis infective endocarditis (EFIE) with available colonoscopies and to assess whether this is associated with the identification of a focus the infection....

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.

May 9th, 2019 - The 2007 American Heart Association (AHA) guideline revision is reducing antibiotic prophylaxis among patients at moderate risk for infective endocarditis (IE), as intended, but is not driving the recent surge in hospitalizations for these life-th...