Since the publication of the 2015 American Heart Association scientific statement on infective endocarditis, its incidence ...

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) ...

Group B streptococci are a cause of infection in pregnant and nonpregnant adults, but infective endocarditis is an uncommon presentation of invasive disease from group B streptococci. Risk factors for ...

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 ...

Patients randomized to tailored approach needed 15 fewer days of antibiotics in POET II ...

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 ...

Side effects of cephalothin included mild rashes, fever and superficial thrombophlebitis. An excessive blood level (51 μg per milliliter) developed in a patient who had a serum creatinine of 2.2 mg ...

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

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 ...

Compared with standard treatment, an abbreviated regimen was associated with more relapses but didn’t compromise safety.

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 ...