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 ...

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 ...

Clinical experience over the past decade suggests that the number of cases of polymicrobial infective endocarditis has greatly increased. We found 101 reports of cases of polymicrobial endocardial ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2007 American Heart Association (AHA) guideline revision is reducing antibiotic prophylaxis among patients at moderate risk for infective endocarditis (IE), as intended, but is not driving the ...

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Infective endocarditis (IE) in elderly patients presents a unique diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Atypical presentations frequently lead to delayed diagnosis and poor outcome. IE in elderly ...