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Infective endocarditis complicated by embolic events: Pathogenesis and predictors
Clinical Cardiology, 2021 Infective endocarditis (IE) continues to be associated with great challenges. Embolic events (EE) are frequent and life‐threatening complications in IE patients. It remains challenging to predict and assess the embolic risk in individual patients with IE
Wangling Hu, Xindi Wang, Guanhua Su
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Do patients at risk of infective endocarditis need antibiotics before dental procedures? [PDF]
, 2017 What you need to know: - Patients with prosthetic heart valves, previous infective endocarditis, and some types of congenital heart disease are at highest risk of infective endocarditis - Invasive dental procedures cause bacteraemia, which can be ...
Cahill, T. +3 more
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Right‐Sided Infective Endocarditis 2020: Challenges and Updates in Diagnosis and Treatment
Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020 Compared with the extensive data on left‐sided infective endocarditis (IE), there is much less published information on the features and management of right‐sided IE. Right‐sided IE accounts for 5% to 10% of all IE cases, and compared with left‐sided IE,
H. Shmueli +5 more
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Think twice, look twice: Eustachian valve endocarditis due to Escherichia coli [PDF]
, 2013 Eustachian valve endocarditis is a rare cause of infective endocarditis. We present the case of a 72-year-old lady in whom this was found after a lengthy search.
Mordi, I., Tzemos, N.
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Infective endocarditis and cancer in the elderly [PDF]
, 2015 Little is known about the magnitude of the association between infective endocarditis and cancer, and about the natural history of cancer patients with concomitant diagnosis of infective endocarditis. We used the SEER-Medicare linked database to identify
García-Albéniz, Xabier +5 more
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Infective endocarditis and oral health-a Narrative Review.
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, 2021 Infective endocarditis is a rare but usually severe and often fatal inflammatory disease affecting the endocardial surface, native and prosthetic valves or cardiac devices.
C. Bumm, M. Folwaczny
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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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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 +2 more
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Cerebrovascular complications and infective endocarditis. impact of available evidence on clinical outcome [PDF]
, 2018 Infective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening disease. Its epidemiological profile has substantially changed in recent years although 1-year mortality is still high.
De Bellis, Antonio +8 more
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Coagulation: At the heart of infective endocarditis
Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2020 Infective endocarditis is a life‐threatening and enigmatic disease with a mortality of 30% and a pathophysiology that is poorly understood. However, at its core, an endocarditis lesion is mainly a fibrin and platelet blood clot infested with bacteria ...
L. Liesenborghs +3 more
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