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 ...

Revised guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA) that advised against antibiotic prophylaxis in all but patients at highest risk for infective endocarditis were swiftly implemented into ...

Danish hospitals logged alarmingly high mid-term mortality rates in infective endocarditis (IE) despite improvements in identifying culprit pathogens in recent years, sending a warning to other ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The 2007 decision to no longer advise antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent viridans group streptococcal infective ...

Bacterial endocarditis, or infective endocarditis, is a rare infection of the heart lining and valves. It is caused by a bacterial infection and results in flu-like symptoms. The condition may become ...

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