A workforce on the surgical management of tricuspid endocarditis in patients who inject drugs cautioned against relying on vegetation size and microbiology as criteria for surgery in these patients.

A European study has shown that vegetation length is a strong predictor of embolism and mortality after initiation of antibiotics in patients with infective endocarditis (IE). In combination with ...

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 ...

Future Microbiol. 2008;3(3):341-349. © 2008 Future Medicine Ltd. Cite this: Getting to the Heart of the Problem: Serological and Molecular Techniques in the ...

Among patients with infective endocarditis, a vegetation size of greater than 10 mm was associated with higher likelihood of embolism and mortality, according to a meta-analysis. Researchers analyzed ...

THE nature of the valvular lesions in subacute bacterial endocarditis makes the use of anticoagulants appear a logical procedure in the prevention of fibrin formation. Such agents should thereby keep ...

Lush vegetation is great for a gardener, but alarming for a cardiologist. For them, the news that Angiodynamics Inc. received U.S. FDA breakthrough device designation for its Angiovac system to remove ...

Seoul, Korea (updated) - Results of EASE, an unprecedented randomized trial showing that early surgery is better than conventional therapy for patients with infective endocarditis, are now published ...

Despite advances in antimicrobial therapy, diagnostic imaging and cardiac surgery, infective endocarditis (IE) remains challenging clinically and is associated with high morbidity and mortality.

Endocarditis is a rare, potentially fatal infection of the endocardium, or inner lining of the heart. It is usually caused by bacteria traveling through the bloodstream to the heart and is treated by ...

Imaging helped clinicians diagnose a man in Texas with a rare case of infective endocarditis (IE) thought to be caused by vigorous flossing, according to a case report published on December 18 in the ...