Injection drug use is a relatively infrequent cause of endocarditis in this group of patients in more contemporary cohorts. All patients with suspected Gram-negative endocarditis should undergo ...

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a relatively uncommon condition associated with a high risk ... A cardiology opinion was sought as part of the vascular assessment and revealed no heart murmur on ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2010;8(8):879-885. In summary, endocarditis with non-HACEK Gram-negative bacilli should be a consideration in patients with history of injection drug use or bacteremia ...

OBJECTIVE To identify predictors for the safe use of antibiotic treatment without reoperation in patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis. SETTING Retrospective study in a tertiary care centre.

These included tropical endomyocardial disease, endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica ... The presence and intensity of the systolic murmur from the tricuspid regurgitation is variable, but a third ...

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aInstitute of Translational Research, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), Faculty of Medicine and University ...

Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) is characterised by sterile vegetations on heart valves and often emerges in hypercoagulable states like malignancy. It is frequently underdiagnosed and ...