UK guidance on infective endocarditis prevention has undergone its most significant change in nearly two decades.

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2008;27(7):647-648. From the beginning, the scientific basis for recommendations for endocarditis prophylaxis was not well established. The evidence supporting prophylaxis ...

Urgent surgery and preoperative haemodynamic instability strongly predict in-hospital death in native aortic valve ...

Background Despite growing interest in male–female differences in cardiovascular disease, evidence in infective endocarditis ...

Endocarditis is a life-threatening disease that involves inflammation of the endocardium, heart valve, and vascular intima. Endocarditis is caused by pathogenic bacteria - around 90% of the cases are ...

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare but often deadly complication for patients whose aortic stenosis is treated with a transcatheter heart valve or with surgery, according to a new analysis of ...

In an attempt to evaluate the magnitude and significance of recent changes in the clinical pattern of bacterial endocarditis and to assess the influence of both host and bacterial factors on this ...

Gonococcal endocarditis can present aggressively and evade blood cultures. Read more about diagnosis and management.

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Endocarditis' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The medication(s) ...

A strange bump on a 27-year-old man's hand turned out to indicate a serious health issue. The man told medical staff that in addition to the odd lump, he'd recently lost 26 pounds and had been dealing ...

Endocarditis is an infection of the heart’s inner lining, the endocardium. However, in some cases, endocarditis may also be non-infective. In non-infective endocarditis or nonbacterial thrombic ...