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Blood culture-negative infective endocarditis: are we looking hard enough?

, 2023
Introduction: Infective endocarditis is a common cardiac condition, with significant mortality. Blood culture-negative endocarditis is an important subgroup of endocarditis that holds significant morbidity and mortality.
Natasha Marcella Vaselli, Kirk, Frazer, Vaselli, Natasha Marcella, Frazer Kirk   +3 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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Type A Quadricuspid Aortic Valve Infective Endocarditis Complicated by Multiple Aortocardiac Fistulae: Case Report and Brief Literature Review

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, Mohammed Bachrif, Anass Hbali, Mostapha Beghi, Nabila Ismaili, Noha El Ouafi   +5 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, Vinh Luu, Teddy Truc, Amin Sabet, Javad Savoj, Mimi Biswas   +5 more
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Clinical features of the course of infective endocarditis of prosthetic valves and endocarditis of intracardiac devices

Лечащий Врач
Background. The increase in the number of cardiac surgeries has also led to a growth in cases of infective endocarditis of prosthetic valves and intracardiac devices.
V. A. Mosina, I. V. Demko, L. I. Pelinovskaya, A. E. Ryazanov, Ya. I. Verigo, K. V. Kochkina, K. F. Kasymova   +6 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, Larissa Rezende Tiberto, Viviane Nardin Monte Bello, Margarete Aparecida Jacometo Lima, Gisele Alborghetti Nai, Marilda Aparecida Milanez Morgado de Abreu   +5 more
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Antibiotic prophylaxis with amoxicillin to prevent infective endocarditis in periodontitis patients reconsidered: a narrative review

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2021
OBJECTIVES: To discuss first, the adequacy of the antibiotic prophylaxis regimen currently recommended for the prevention of infective endocarditis in periodontitis patients, and second, preventive measures to decrease the rate of bacteraemia after ...
Christian R. Hatz, Mario Cremona, Chun Ching  Liu, Patrick R. Schmidlin, Anna Conen   +4 more
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Septic emboli secondary to Infective Endocarditis [PDF]

, 2016
A 31 year old lady was brought to casualty by a friend, unconscious and incontinent of urine and faeces. She was responsive to verbal stimuli with a Glasgow Come Scale (GCS) of 10 and noted to have a fever of 39.6oC.
Pavia, Jessica, Padovani, Luisa, Paris, Timothy   +2 more
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Pacemaker endocarditis due to Haemophilus parainfluenza : case report and literature review [PDF]

, 2007
This article reports a case of pacemaker infective endocarditis in a 14 month old girl, caused by Haemophilus parainfluenzae. There are no other cases in children reported in the literature.
Sammut, Patrick, Kadalraja, R., Woodcock, H., Oswal, Neelam   +3 more
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