Patients who underwent mitral valve replacement had a more than threefold higher 10-year rate of infective endocarditis than those at moderate risk for the disease, whereas undergoing mitral valve ...

A 67-year-old man with a history of 17-day fever and weakness presented with dyspnea on exertion, which had been worsening in the last few days. He had no history of disease, and there was no evidence ...

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Figure 1. A 56-year-old man presented with severe lumbar pain, a seven-week history of fever (temperature as high as 39°C), a 10-kg weight loss, and a recent history of treatment with cephalosporins.

Background: Perivalvular abscess is an ominous development in patients with infective endocarditis. There is little information concerning the long-term outcome of these patients. Methods: Patients ...

The purpose of the present study was to assess the late results of subacute bacterial endocarditis on the cardiac status of patients. Hence we selected a group of patients who were treated a minimum ...

Despite advances in antimicrobial therapy, diagnostic imaging and cardiac surgery, infective endocarditis (IE) remains challenging clinically and is associated with high morbidity and mortality.

Infective endocarditis of the native heart valves was once considered to be a disease caused predominantly by community-acquired bacterial infection. A report by the investigators of the International ...