With the development of penicillin, Streptococcus pneumoniae has become an uncommon cause of bacterial endocarditis in adults. Subacute manifestation of pneumococcal endocarditis has been reported a ...

Introduction Intracardiac abscess complicates both native (NV-IE) and prosthetic valve infective endocarditis (PV-IE). Antibiotics alone rarely achieve source control, and if left untreated abscesses ...

Summary A case of subacute bacterial endocarditis due to Streptococcus faecalis is presented. This occurred as a complication of traumatic arteriovenous fistulas and subsequent endarteritis.

Discussion: Streptococcus mitis endocarditis is relatively rare and typically affects individuals with pre-existing valvular abnormalities or immunosuppression. In this case, the patient had no known ...

Background Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteremia may result in Infective Endocarditis (IE). In the pre-antibiotic era, it caused 10 %‒15 % of IE, decreasing to < 3 % after penicillin availability.

The HANDOC score and the 2023 Duke clinical criteria from the International Society of Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases showed high efficacy for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis in patients ...

Cite this: Native Triple-Valve Endocarditis Caused by Penicillin-Resistant Streptococcus sanguis - Medscape - Jun 01, 2007.

Patients with infective endocarditis (IE) following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) tend to be older with more comorbidities, with Enterococcus spp. and Streptococcus spp. frequently ...

Known as infective endocarditis, or bacterial endocarditis, it happens more often than you might think and it can be life-threatening. Penn Medicine defines infective endocarditis as inflammation of ...

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