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Atypical Presentation of Infective Endocarditis: Reactive Arthritis as the First Clinical Clue [PDF]

Cureus
Ahmed A, Adam B, Rafiqui S, Dafalla A, Mukhtar A, Aljaziri O, Abdelhamid A, Al-Haneedi Y, Al-Enazi S, Almaraghi E.   +9 more
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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 [PDF]

The Lancet, 2016
Infective endocarditis occurs worldwide, and is defined by infection of a native or prosthetic heart valve, the endocardial surface, or an indwelling cardiac device. The causes and epidemiology of the disease have evolved in recent decades with a doubling of the average patient age and an increased prevalence in patients with indwelling cardiac devices.
Thomas J, Cahill, Bernard D, Prendergast
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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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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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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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Diagnosis of infective endocarditis with cardiac CT in an adult

Radiology Case Reports, 2019
The diagnosis of infective endocarditis is based on modified Duke's criteria, which includes clinical, biological, and echocardiographic findings. However, computed tomography (CT) has not been mentioned as a diagnostic tool in the criteria.
Kotaro Ouchi, MD, PhD, Toshiro Ebihara, MD, Masaki Niitani, MD, Masato Makino, MD, Makoto Hirose, MD, Daisuke Iiduka, MD, Kazuo Misumi, MD, PhD   +6 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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Infective endocarditis associated with Bartonella henselae: A case series

IDCases, 2018
Organisms in the genus Bartonella are cause of blood culture-negative endocarditis. Bartonella infective endocarditis is being increasingly reported worldwide; however, reports from Japan are limited.
Akio Nakasu, Tohru Ishimine, Hiroshi Yasumoto, Toshiho Tengan, Hidemistu Mototake   +4 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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