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Prevention of Bacterial Endocarditis
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1990Bacterial endocarditis continues to cause high morbidity and mortality and often occurs in the setting of structural abnormalities of the cardiovascular system. Alterations of the normal heart valvular function increase the risk for that valve to become the site of a bacterial nidus.
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Pathogenesis of Bacterial Endocarditis
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1963SEVERAL ENIGMAS about the mechanism of valvular endocarditis still exist. Why such an entity prevails at all requires elucidation. The relation of vegetations on the valve to an underlying interstitial valvulitis and of the bacterial to the nonbacterial vegetation is still moot. Do the bacteria reach the valve via the interstitial capillary bed or as a
Alfred Angrist, Masamichi Oka
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Prevention of bacterial endocarditis
Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 1997A major review of the American Heart Association guidelines for endocarditis prophylaxis was published in 1997. In view of changing perspectives on the population at risk for endocarditis and new information on the likelihood of particular procedures to place patients at risk, simplified guidelines have been developed.
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Prevention of Bacterial Endocarditis
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1977Bacterial endocarditis is a preventable disease if physicians and susceptible patients cooperate in exercising diligent prophylaxis. Since prevention is easier and more certain than cure, it is incumbent on physicians to denote persons at risk and to institute preventive chemotherapy under appropriate circumstances.
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SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1951To the Editor:— In your excellent editorial "Treatment of Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis" (March 10, 1951) certain factors are discussed which you consider the most important in obtaining cures in this disease. I feel that, in so doing, you have failed to mention two equally important factors: 1. The early treatment of subacute bacterial endocarditis
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