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 +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 +11 more
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Service evaluation to establish the sensitivity, specificity and additional value of broad-range 16S rDNA PCR for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis from resected endocardial material in patients from eight UK and Ireland hospitals [PDF]
, 2014 Infective endocarditis (IE) can be diagnosed in the clinical microbiology laboratory by culturing explanted heart valve material. We present a service evaluation that examines the sensitivity and specificity of a broad-range 16S rDNA polymerase chain ...
Alshafi, K +8 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 +4 more
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An unusual case of disseminated intravascular coagulation [PDF]
, 2017 The use of cardiac pacemakers is increasing worldwide. Infective endocarditis from a pacemaker lead is a rare, but one of the most severe complications of pacemaker insertion.
Alshaker, Heba +4 more
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Optimizing Guideline-Recommended Antibiotic Doses for Pediatric Infective Endocarditis [PDF]
, 2016 The American Heart Association recently published an updated scientific statement on the management of infective endocarditis in childhood. The recommendations included for vancomycin, aminoglycoside, and β-lactam dosing and monitoring are based ...
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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 +2 more
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First report of infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus pseudoporcinus in Vietnam
New Microbes and New Infections, 2020 We report a first case of Streptococcus pseudoporcinus bacteraemia causing infective endocarditis in a 40-year-old man in Vietnam. This is the second case of Streptococcus pseudoporcinus infective endocarditis in the literature.
P.D. Hai +5 more
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A Case Report of Acute Heart Failure Due to Infective Aortic Endocarditis Diagnosed by Point-of-care Ultrasound [PDF]
, 2020 Introduction: Infective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening condition with significant morbidity and mortality, and can require surgical repair.Case Report: A 36-year-old man presented to the emergency department for worsening dyspnea and chest pain.
Gallagher, Ryan +3 more
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Presence Of A Congenitally Bicuspid Aortic Valve Among Patients Having Combined Mitral And Aortic Valve Replacement [PDF]
, 2012 Although bicuspid aortic valve occurs in an estimated 1% of adults and mitral valve prolapse in an estimated 5% of adults, occurrence of the 2 in the same patient is infrequent.
Hamman, Baron Lloyd +5 more
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