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

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

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

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 ...

Background The optimal surgical strategy for mitral valve (MV) infective endocarditis (IE) remains uncertain. Although valve ...

SAN ANTONIO -- In response to the opioid epidemic, a primer to treating infective endocarditis (IE) specifically related to drug use was released by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). A workforce ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among 1,874 people with DUA-IE, 38% died or had a bacterial infection within 3 years. The most common infections ...

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

In a recent study published in the Journal of The American Heart Association, researchers assess trends in infective endocarditis (IE)-associated deaths in the United States from 1999 to 2020. Study: ...

A recent medical case has highlighted the diagnostic challenges of Gonococcal endocarditis, a rare but aggressive infection, ...