The Duke criteria for endocarditis are summarized below. These were originally proposed in 1994 to help establish the diagnosis of endocarditis. Two major and one minor criteria are needed to ...

According to Duke, Margaret, a high school freshman, needed the valve replacement immediately after she contracted a bacterial infection (endocarditis) that created large holes in her mitral valve.

And Duke pediatric heart surgeons Dr. Joseph Turek ... "I had a staph infection, and I also actually had endocarditis, which is when the staph gets into your heart," Van Bruggen said.

Risk for symptomatic embolism can be predicted via echocardiographic vegetation features in patients with infective endocarditis.

Duke's new approach—called partial heart ... After developing a serious bacterial infection called endocarditis, large holes formed in her mitral valve, and her health began to decline fast.