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Infective endocarditis following invasive dental procedures: IDEA case-crossover study

open access: yesHealth Technology Assessment, 2022
Background: Infective endocarditis is a heart infection with a first-year mortality rate of ≈ 30%. It has long been thought that infective endocarditis is causally associated with bloodstream seeding with oral bacteria in ≈ 40–45% of cases.
Martin H Thornhill   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Triple valve infective endocarditis - a late diagnosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Behcet\u27s disease is a systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology with cardiac involvement as well as damage to other organs. Whether the sterile valvular inflammation which occurs in this autoimmune disease predisposes to bacterial adhesion and ...
Barbulescu, Andreea L.   +10 more
core   +3 more sources

Incidence, Microbiology, and Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With Infective Endocarditis

open access: yesCirculation, 2020
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Background: Despite improvements in management, infective endocarditis remains associated with high mortality and morbidity.
Anoop S. V. Shah   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Proposed modifications to the Duke criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis.

open access: yesClinical Infectious Diseases, 2000
Although the sensitivity and specificity of the Duke criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) have been validated by investigators from Europe and the United States, several shortcomings of this schema remain.
Jennifer S. Li   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prevalence of Infective Endocarditis in Streptococcal Bloodstream Infections Is Dependent on Streptococcal Species

open access: yesCirculation, 2020
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Background: Streptococci frequently cause infective endocarditis (IE), yet the prevalence of IE in patients with bloodstream infections (BSIs) caused by different streptococcal species is unknown. We
S. Chamat-Hedemand   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A retrospective epidemiologic study to define risk factors, microbiology, and clinical outcomes of infective endocarditis in a large tertiary-care teaching hospital

open access: yesSAGE 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical presentation, aetiology and outcome of infective endocarditis. Results of the ESC-EORP EURO-ENDO (European infective endocarditis) registry: a prospective cohort study.

open access: yesEuropean Heart Journal, 2019
AIMS The EURO-ENDO registry aimed to study the management and outcomes of patients with infective endocarditis (IE). METHODS AND RESULTS Prospective cohort of 3116 adult patients (2470 from Europe, 646 from non-ESC countries), admitted to 156 hospitals
G. Habib   +499 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Injecting Drug Addiction as a Risk Factor for Infective Endocarditis

open access: yesАнтибиотики 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
doaj   +1 more source

Contemporary risk models for infective endocarditis surgery: a narrative review

open access: yesTherapeutic 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
doaj   +1 more source

The changing epidemiology and clinical features of infective endocarditis: A retrospective study of 196 episodes in a teaching hospital in China

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +1 more source

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