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Association of recurrent fever and anemia with infective endocarditis in a 13-year-old girl with bicuspid aortic valve [PDF]

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2022
Introduction. Infective endocarditis is relatively rare in pediatric population, but can result in significant morbidity and mortality. Children with bicuspid aortic valve are at higher risk of developing infective endocarditis as compared to the general
Petrović Vesna, Vujić-Aleksić Vesna, Parezanović Vojislav   +2 more
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Infective Endocarditis as the Cause of Death: A Population based Study in Portugal, from 2002 to 2018

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2021
Introduction: Infective endocarditis presents a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Population-based studies addressing mortality caused by infective endocarditis in Portugal are scarce.
Catarina de Sousa, Ruy M. Ribeiro, Fausto J. Pinto   +2 more
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A rare simultaneous occurrence: Mitral valve endocarditis complicated by iliac saddle and cerebral embolisms

Revista Colombiana de Cardiología, 2022
Infective endocarditis is a severe disease with a high mortality and morbidity, and its clinical heterogeneity is a challenging barrier to rapid diagnosis and treatment.
Yavuzer Koza, Uğur Kaya, Enise Armağan-Koza   +2 more
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Novel Tissue Level Effects of the Staphylococcus aureus Enterotoxin Gene Cluster Are Essential for Infective Endocarditis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Superantigens are indispensable virulence factors for Staphylococcus aureus in disease causation. Superantigens stimulate massive immune cell activation, leading to toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and contributing to other illnesses.
Christopher S Stach, Bao G Vu, Joseph A Merriman, Alfa Herrera, Michael P Cahill, Patrick M Schlievert, Wilmara Salgado-Pabón   +6 more
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Infective Endocarditis as a Complication of Intravenous Drug Use in Pregnancy: A Retrospective Case Series and Literature Review

American Journal of Perinatology Reports, 2020
Objective An increase in opioid use disorder and subsequent intravenous drug use has led to an increase in sequalae that may complicate pregnancy, such as infective endocarditis.
Adebayo Adesomo, Veronica Gonzalez-Brown, Kara M. Rood   +2 more
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Infective endocarditis following invasive dental procedures: IDEA case-crossover study

Health Technology Assessment, 2022
Background: Infective endocarditis is a heart infection with a first-year mortality rate of ≈ 30%. It has long been thought that infective endocarditis is causally associated with bloodstream seeding with oral bacteria in ≈ 40–45% of cases.
Martin H Thornhill, Annabel Crum, Saleema Rex, Richard Campbell, Tony Stone, Mike Bradburn, Veronica Fibisan, Mark J Dayer, Bernard D Prendergast, Peter B Lockhart, Larry M Baddour, Jon Nicholl   +11 more
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The Duke minor criterion "predisposing heart condition" in native valve infective endocarditis – a systematic review

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2018
BACKGROUND The term “predisposition” is used as an indication of antimicrobial prophylaxis to prevent infective endocarditis and as a criterion for diagnosing infective endocarditis according to the modified Duke criteria.
Annina E. Buechi, Mario Hoffmann, Stephan Zbinden, Andrew Atkinson, Parham Sendi   +4 more
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A retrospective epidemiologic study to define risk factors, microbiology, and clinical outcomes of infective endocarditis in a large tertiary-care teaching hospital

SAGE Open Medicine, 2017
Objective: This study aims to define risk factors as well as their association with microbiology and clinical outcomes in a large US infective endocarditis population. Methods: Hospital records were searched for appropriate infective endocarditis–related
Anahita S Mostaghim, Hoi Yee Annie Lo, Nancy Khardori   +2 more
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The changing epidemiology and clinical features of infective endocarditis: A retrospective study of 196 episodes in a teaching hospital in China

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2017
Background Infective endocarditis is an uncommon but life-threatening infectious disease. To our knowledge, current investigations of the characteristics of infective endocarditis in our region are scarce.
Wan Zhu, Qian Zhang, Jingping Zhang
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Injecting Drug Addiction as a Risk Factor for Infective Endocarditis

Антибиотики и Химиотерапия, 2020
In recent decades, the number and ratio of the main risk factors for infective endocarditis has increased. Among them, injecting drug addiction and other peripheral vascular disease factors play a key role.
A. I. Danilov, S. N. Kozlov, I. P. Zharkova, A. V. Evseev, V. V. Mladov   +4 more
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