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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, Hernan, Miguel Angel, Hernández-Díaz, Sonia, Hsu, John, Lipsitch, Marc, Logan, Roger W.   +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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Effect of Contrast-Enhanced Echocardiograms on the Prognosis of Infective Endocarditis [PDF]

, 2020
Objective - Infective endocarditis (IE) is an infectious disease of the cardiac valves where bacteria colonize the valves; typically, via the formation of vegetations.
Arias, D., Eisenbrey, J. R., Forsberg, F., Halpern, E.   +3 more
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Abiotrophia Endocarditis in Children with No Underlying Heart Disease: A Rare but a Virulent Organism [PDF]

, 2014
Infective endocarditis is extremely rare in children with structurally normal hearts. The most common etiological agents are staphylococcal and streptococcal species.
Aggarwal, Sanjeev, Asmar, Basim I., Bhat, Deepti P., Nagaraju, Lakshmi   +3 more
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Arthritis as a manifestation of infective endocarditis

Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University: Series Medicine, 2020
Introduction. Diagnosis of infective endocarditis is a challenging task for clinicians. The issue of early infective endocarditis detection is topical, since the mortality rate of this pathological condition is high; also, along with the classic symptoms
Karyna Uvarova
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Patients with infective endocarditis undergoing cardiac surgery have distinct ROTEM profiles and more bleeding complications compared to patients without infective endocarditis.

PLoS ONE, 2023
BackgroundThe coagulation system is crucial in the pathogenesis of infective endocarditis and undergoes significant changes during course of the disease. However, little is known about the implications of those changes in the perioperative period. Aim of
Jennifer S Breel, Agnes G C L Wensing, Susanne Eberl, Benedikt Preckel, Patrick Schober, Marcella C A Müller, Robert J M Klautz, Markus W Hollmann, Henning Hermanns   +8 more
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Candida infective endocarditis [PDF]

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2008
Candida infective endocarditis (IE) is uncommon but often fatal. Most epidemiologic data are derived from small case series or case reports. This study was conducted to explore the epidemiology, treatment patterns, and outcomes of patients with Candida IE.
Baddley JW, Benjamin DK Jr, Patel M, Miró J, Athan E, Barsic B, Bouza E, Clara L, Elliott T, Kanafani Z, Klein J, Lerakis S, Levine D, Spelman D, Rubinstein E, Tornos P, Morris AJ, Pappas P, Fowler VG Jr, Chu VH, Cabell C, among International Collaboration on Endocarditis Prospective Cohort Study Group, UTILI, Riccardo   +22 more
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When the heart rules the head: ischaemic stroke and intracerebral haemorrhage complicating infective endocarditis [PDF]

, 2017
Sir William Osler meticulously described the clinical manifestations of infective endocarditis in 1885, concluding that: 'few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis … which in many cases are practically insurmountable'.
Curtis, C, Gill, SK, Jiad, E, Krutikov, M, Parkinson, MH, Turner, D, Werring, DJ   +6 more
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An unusual case report of mitral valve apparatus sparing left atrial appendage vegetation presenting as endogenous endophthalmitis

The Egyptian Heart Journal, 2021
Background Ocular manifestations of infective endocarditis are nonspecific and rare. Endophthalmitis, retinal artery occlusion, Roth spots and vitreal and retinal infiltrations can all be seen with infective endocarditis.
Rupesh Kumar, Vidur Bansal, Vikram Halder, Nirupan Sekhar Chakraborty, Krishna Prasad Gourav   +4 more
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Prophylaxis of Infective Endocarditis: A Cross Sectional Survey among Physician Members of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2022
Introduction: In the last decade, the downgrading of indications for antibiotic prophylaxis for infective endocarditis caused an uncertain impact on the incidence of this condition.
Catarina de Sousa, Ana G. Almeida, Fausto J. Pinto   +2 more
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