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Antibiotic prophylaxis for preventing bacterial endocarditis following dental procedures.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2022
BACKGROUND Infective endocarditis is a severe infection arising in the lining of the chambers of the heart. It can be caused by fungi, but most often is caused by bacteria.
Samantha J Rutherford   +4 more
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Glomerulonephritis in bacterial endocarditis

The American Journal of Medicine, 1984
The introduction of antibiotic therapy and changing epidemiologic patterns have altered the nature of glomerulonephritis as it occurs during the course of bacterial endocarditis. Observations made predominantly in the pre-antibiotic era suggested that infections with less virulent organisms, by virtue of their indolent subacute course, favored an ...
David S. Baldwin, Joel Neugarten
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Bacterial endocarditis in cirrhosis

Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 1981
The frequency of bacterial endocarditis at autopsy in cirrhotic and noncirrhotic patients was examined. A total of 2352 autopsies were performed during a 30-year period during which bacterial endocarditis (BE) was found in 14 patients (0.59%), and cirrhosis was present in 342 patients (14.5%).
Velázquez J   +3 more
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Subacute bacterial endocarditis

The American Journal of Medicine, 1949
Abstract 1.1. In the year 1946 ten patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis due to nonhemolytic streptococcus were admitted to this hospital. All have achieved cures with the use of penicillin. 2.2. Five of the ten patients had had recent dental work prior to onset of the illness which probably precipitated the infection. 3.3.
Ruben Snyderman, James S. Tipping
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Aortitis and Bacterial Endocarditis

Vascular, 2008
Aortitis is an inflammatory condition that can be due to numerous causes. It is a diagnostic quandary because it commonly shows similar clinical, pathologic, and aortographic features independently of the etiology. A case of aortitis, possibly secondary to bacterial endocarditis, initially misdiagnosed as an atherosclerotic aortic ulcer and managed ...
Fred N. Littooy   +4 more
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AN ANALYSIS OF TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY CASES OF ENDOCARDITIS: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SUBACUTE BACTERIAL TYPE

, 1924
The condition of the heart valves included in the term subacute bacterial endocarditis has within the last fifteen to twenty years created much interest. As early as 1885, Osler 1 described this condition in what he called malignant endocarditis.
B. Clawson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Antibiotics for the prophylaxis of bacterial endocarditis in dentistry.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2013
BACKGROUND Infective endocarditis is a severe infection arising in the lining of the chambers of the heart with a high mortality rate.Many dental procedures cause bacteraemia and it was believed that this may lead to bacterial endocarditis (BE) in a few ...
A. Glenny   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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