Endocarditis is a life-threatening disease that involves inflammation of the endocardium, heart valve, and vascular intima. Endocarditis is caused by pathogenic bacteria - around 90% of the cases are ...

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Anemia and transfusion of red blood cells are common in patients undergoing valve surgery for infective endocarditis, and ...

Endocarditis is an infection of the heart’s inner lining, the endocardium. However, in some cases, endocarditis may also be non-infective. In non-infective endocarditis or nonbacterial thrombic ...

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare but often deadly complication for patients whose aortic stenosis is treated with a transcatheter heart valve or with surgery, according to a new analysis of ...

People who inject drugs are dying at an alarming rate from endocarditis, a serious but treatable heart-valve infection. But their odds of survival improve dramatically, even five years after their ...

The rarity of endocarditis due to Klebsiella species limits its recognition and awareness of its often malignant course. We describe two recent cases of Klebsiella pneumoniae endocarditis and review ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infective endocarditis is an infection of the endocardial surface of the heart involving at least one heart ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There has been a dramatic increase in the number of staphylococcal bacteremias and cases of infective ...

The mouth is a breeding ground for bacteria, most of which are harmless so long as they don't enter the bloodstream. When microbes do cross into the blood and enter the heart, vulnerable valves can ...