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Prognostic value of residual vegetation after antibiotic treatment for infective endocarditis: A retrospective cohort study

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background: The prognostic impact of residual vegetation (RV) after medical treatment for endocarditis remains unknown. Methods: 134 consecutive patients hospitalized for infective endocarditis, not surgically treated, with the presence of vegetation at ...
Valérie Houard, Lydie Porte, Clémence Delon, Didier Carrié, Pierre Delobel, Michel Galinier, Olivier Lairez, Yoan Lavie-Badie   +7 more
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Rheumatic Heart Valve Disease Pathophysiology and Underlying Mechanisms

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021
Rheumatic heart valve disease (RHVD) is a post-infectious sequel of acute rheumatic fever resulting from an abnormal immune response to a streptococcal pharyngitis that triggers valvular damage.
Livia S A Passos, M. C. Nunes, E. Aikawa
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Non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae infective endocarditis with embolic events: a case report

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background Corynebacterium diphtheriae (C. diphtheriae) infections, usually related to upper airways involvement, could be highly invasive. Especially in developing countries, non-toxigenic C.
Antonio de Santis, Rinaldo Focaccia Siciliano, Roney Orismar Sampaio, Masahiko Akamine, Elinthon T. Veronese, Francisco Monteiro de Almeida Magalhaes, Maria Rita Elmor Araújo, Flavia Rossi, Marcelo M. C. Magri, Ana Catharina Nastri, Tarso A. D. Accorsi, Vitor E. E. Rosa, David Provenzale Titinger, Guilherme S. Spina, Flavio Tarasoutchi   +14 more
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New Insights into Valve Hemodynamics

Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2020
Heart valve diseases are common disorders with five million annual diagnoses being made in the United States alone. All heart valve disorders alter cardiac hemodynamic performance; therefore, treatments aim to restore normal flow.
Gil Marom, Shmuel Einav
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Ten-year outcomes of surgical aortic valve replacement with a contemporary supra-annular porcine valve in a Medicare populationCentral MessagePerspective

JTCVS Open, 2022
Objective: Bioprosthetic surgical aortic valve replacement remains an important treatment option in the era of transcatheter interventions. Real-world outcomes are not well characterized because of limited prospective follow-up studies. We present the 10-
Robert J. Wiechmann, MD, Leonard Y. Lee, MD, Yang Yu, PhD, Julie B. Prillinger, PhD, Dan Gutfinger, MD, Bradford Blakeman, MD   +5 more
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Rheumatic Heart Disease and Myxomatous Degeneration: Differences and Similarities of Valve Damage Resulting from Autoimmune Reactions and Matrix Disorganization. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Autoimmune inflammatory reactions leading to rheumatic fever (RF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) result from untreated Streptococcus pyogenes throat infections in individuals who exhibit genetic susceptibility.
Carlo de Oliveira Martins, Lea Demarchi, Frederico Moraes Ferreira, Pablo Maria Alberto Pomerantzeff, Carlos Brandao, Roney Orismar Sampaio, Guilherme Sobreira Spina, Jorge Kalil, Edecio Cunha-Neto, Luiza Guilherme   +9 more
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Incidence of Bacterial Endocarditis after Heart Valves Replacement Surgery in Mashhad (from 2012 to 2016) [PDF]

Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, 2022
Introduction: Bacterial endocarditis is one of the high mortality complications after the valve surgery. Despite the medical advancements, the mortality rate of Bacterial Endocarditis has not been decreased.
Atefeh Ghorbanzadeh, Gholamreza Safarpoor, Hamid Hoseinikhah, Omid Javdanfar, Soroush Mir, Zahra Moeinipour, Aliasghar Moeinipour   +6 more
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Recent progress in biomaterials for heart valve replacement: Structure, function, and biomimetic design

View, 2021
Heart diseases caused by structure and function degradation is troubling millions of people all over the world. With the extension of human lifespan, the demand for heart valve replacement is rapidly increasing.
Ziyu Shao, Tingting Tao, Hongfei Xu, Cen Chen, In‐Seop Lee, Sungmin Chung, Zhihui Dong, Weidong Li, Liang Ma, Hao Bai, Qianming Chen   +10 more
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Editorial: Women in heart valve disease

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023
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Veulemans, Verena, Billaud, Marie, Nunes, Maria Carmo P., Goettsch, Claudia, Aikawa, Elena   +4 more
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Surgery for valvular heart disease: a population-based study in a Brazilian urban center. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BACKGROUND:In middle income countries, the burden of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains high, but the prevalence of other heart valve diseases may rise as the population life expectancy increases.
Guilherme S Ribeiro, Sara Y Tartof, Dalton W S Oliveira, Aldalice C S Guedes, Mitermayer G Reis, Lee W Riley, Albert I Ko   +6 more
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