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Rare Case of Disseminated Histoplasmosis Mitral Valve Endocarditis in Florida

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Murali Iyyani   +5 more
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Endocarditis

Current Opinion in Cardiology, 1994
The continuing medical literature attests to the fact that infective endocarditis is a serious and complex disease, which in many populations continues to occur at an incidence of approximately 20 per 100,000, and carries a 5% to 40% mortality, depending on numerous pathogen and patient factors.
Stuart J. Hutchison   +2 more
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Endocarditis

Current Opinion in Cardiology, 1997
Endocarditis remains a major worldwide problem despite significant advances in diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. This review centers on the recent studies that have been published in the past year concerning the epidemiologic, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of infective and noninfective endocarditis in both the general and special high ...
J A, Farmer, G, Torre
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Native-Valve Infective Endocarditis.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
Key Clinical Points Native-Valve Infective Endocarditis The modified Duke criteria, which are based on findings on physical examination, echocardiography, microbiologic studies, and computed tomogr...
H. Chambers, A. Bayer
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Management Considerations in Infective Endocarditis: A Review

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2018
Importance Infective endocarditis occurs in approximately 15 of 100 000 people in the United States and has increased in incidence. Clinicians must make treatment decisions with respect to prophylaxis, surgical management, specific antibiotics, and the ...
Andrew Wang, J. Gaca, V. Chu
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Endocarditis

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice
Infectious endocarditis (IE) is a universally fatal condition if left unmanaged, requiring urgent evaluation and treatment. Fever, new heart murmur, vegetations found by echocardiogram, and bacteremia are the most common symptoms and findings. Blood cultures and echocardiography are obligatory diagnostic modalities and should be used with the modified ...
Nicholas R, Butler   +2 more
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Prophylaxis of Endocarditis

Acta Clinica Belgica, 1994
For a long time it has been known that bacteraemias caused by medical or dental procedures may cause endocarditis in patients with specific types of congenital or acquired heart disease. In the 1940s it was thought that the administration of antibiotics before such procedures would prevent endocarditis. However, the beneficial effect of this preventive
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