The purpose of this paper is to present an additional case of coexistent acquired and congenital arteriovenous fistulas with associated pseudoaneurysms complicated by endarteritis and endocarditis ...

BEFORE the antibiotic era subacute bacterial endocarditis was almost invariably a fatal complication in congenital and acquired heart disease. 1–3 The offending organism was Streptococcus viridans in ...

Infective endocarditis is a life-threatening infection of the heart’s endocardial surface, most commonly involving the valves. Members of the Streptococcus bovis/Streptococcus equinus complex (SBSEC) ...

Researchers reanalyzed publicly available genomic data from heart valve tissue to identify bacterial communities associated ...

Background A 26-year-old man with known but untreated ventricular septal defect was admitted to the emergency ward with abdominal pain, fever and weight loss. Transthoracic echocardiography showed ...

Despite negative initial blood cultures and no fever, a cardiac mass in this patient ultimately proved to be infective ...

1 Department of Adult Congenital Heart Disease, The Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland ...

The POET randomised clinical trial challenged the long-standing principle of the treatment of infective endocarditis by ...

Shorter antibiotic treatment worked better in clinically stabilized patients with infective endocarditis on the left side of the heart, even though the risk of infection relapse may be greater, ...

A study found summer food insufficiency rose 4 percentage points among low-income households with children, while first-year Summer EBT participation was low and showed no measurable effect. Federal ...

Streptococcus gallolyticus (Sg) is a Gram-positive, opportunistic pathogen that can cause bacteremia and endocarditis in humans. Interestingly, people who have been infected with Sg have a higher risk ...

Imagine getting your tooth extracted and a bacterial infection develops afterwards that travels down to your heart. Known as infective endocarditis, or bacterial endocarditis, it happens more often ...