Learn about the complications of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), including arrhythmias, heart block, and heart failure, as ...

Infective endocarditis is an infection of the inner lining of the heart, most often affecting the valves. It occurs when bacteria or other microorganisms enter the bloodstream and attach to the heart, ...

Patients who survived at least 90 days after valvular surgery for infective endocarditis experienced higher mortality and a greater burden of hospitalisation in the year following discharge than those ...

Department of Clinical Laboratory, Wuhan Asia General Hospital, Wuhan Asia General Hospital Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China Conclusions: This case highlights a ...

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 ...

Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. We first conducted a scoping review for publications that reported cases of streptococcal bacteraemia ...

Cases of group A streptococcus (GAS) have been on the rise in the past decade. The bacteria can cause a range of diseases that span from mild to deadly. In addition, the bacteria are diversifying and ...

Sore throats and sour news. A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the number of potentially life-threatening invasive group A strep infections more than doubled ...

Researchers have discovered how antibodies help to protect against contagious bacterial infections caused by Strep A, including strep throat. And the findings are already contributing to efforts to ...

“With Strep A being extremely common and every healthy adult having previously encountered it, all the participants had some antibodies against Strep A before the study,” Dr Osowicki said. “We found ...