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Estudio de las complicaciones perianulares en la endocarditis infecciosa. Análisis de aspectos clínicos, microbiológicos, ecocardiográficos, terapéuticos y pronósticos en pacientes con abscesos perianulares y fístulas aorto-cavitarias en la endocarditis complicada. [PDF]

, 2006
[spa] La endocarditis infecciosa (EI) es una enfermedad potencialmente muy grave, que puede llegar a ser mortal sin tratamiento, cuyo pronóstico ha experimentado una gran mejoría en las ultimas décadas. Este importante cambio en la historia natural de la
Anguera Camós, Ignasi
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Shewanella putrefaciens infective endocarditis [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014
Shewanella putrefaciens rarely causes infection in humans. In the last few decades a growing number of cases have been described. The following report outlines the case of a 40-year-old immunocompetent white man with S.
Jonathan Constant, Ivan Chernev, Eric Gomez   +2 more
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Pascal's Wager, infective endocarditis and the "no-lose" philosophy in medicine [PDF]

, 2010
Doctors and dentists have traditionally used antibiotic prophylaxis in certain patient groups in order to prevent infective endocarditis (IE). New guidelines, however, suggest that the risk to patients from using antibiotics is higher than the risk from ...
Conway, D.I., Shaw, D.M., Shaw, D.
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Infective endocarditis: prevention and antibiotic prophylaxis. [PDF]

, 2021
The Swiss societies of Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiology and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Group of Switzerland present the current update on infective endocarditis prophylaxis in a joint initiative.
Agyeman, Philipp Kwame Abayie, Frank, M., Guery, B., Swiss Medical Weekly, Philipp Agyeman, Knirsch, W., Flückiger, Ursula, Zbinden, Stephan, Sendi, Parham, Guery, Benoit, Matthias Greutmann, Greutmann, M., Boggian, Katia, Jeger, R., Greutmann, Matthias, Frank, Michelle, Hasse, Barbara, Boggian, K., Agyeman, P., Knirsch, Walter, Benoit Guery, Sendi, P., Agyeman, Philipp, Zbinden, S., Flückiger, U., Barbara Hasse, Hasse, B., Stephan Zbinden, Michelle Frank, Parham Sendi, Ursula Flückiger, Jeger, Raban, Katia Boggian, Raban Jeger, Walter Knirsch   +34 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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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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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, N.M. Dung, P.N. Son, L.L. Phuong, B.T. Thuyet, L.V. Hoa   +5 more
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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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Contemporary risk models for infective endocarditis surgery: a narrative review

Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease, 2023
Infective endocarditis is a complex heterogeneous condition involving the infection of the endocardium and heart valves, leading to severe complications, including death.
Ankit Agrawal, Aro Daniela Arockiam, Yasser Jamil, Joseph El Dahdah, Bianca Honnekeri, Michel Chedid El Helou, Joseph Kassab, Tom Kai Ming Wang   +7 more
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