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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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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 +7 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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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 +4 more
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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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Case Reports in Cardiology, 2017 Aortocardiac fistulae (ACF) are exceptionally due to infective endocarditis; they are usually congenital, posttraumatic, or complicate aortic dissection.
Amine Ghalem +5 more
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Long-term outcome after tricuspid valvectomy in a neonate with Candida endocarditis : a case report [PDF]
, 2019 Tricuspid valvectomy is a rare surgical intervention, and knowledge regarding long-term outcome in children is lacking. We report a favourable outcome 11 years after tricuspid valvectomy in early infancy without subsequent surgery or other cardiac ...
Bogers, Ad JJC +2 more
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Pulmonic valve infective endocarditis from staph lugdunensis
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2019 Pulmonic valve endocarditis is an extremely rare entity. Only 1.1% of all cases of all infective endocarditis affect the pulmonic valve. Furthermore, it is even more uncommon for such a disease process to occur in a young and healthy individual without ...
Syed Iftikhar +5 more
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Dermatologic manifestations of infective endocarditis [PDF]
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2016 Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment, infective endocarditis still shows considerable morbidity and mortality rates. The dermatological examination in patients with suspected infective endocarditis may prove very useful, as it might reveal ...
Rafael Tomaz Gomes +5 more
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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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