Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy for the treatment of infective endocarditis was found to be safe and effective, despite the use of less restrictive criteria than those recommended by the ...

The diagnositic criteria are diverse, and many cases are far from obvious. An infectious disease specialist explicates the workup and initial therapy. Despite all the recent technologic advances in ...

Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) for infective endocarditis (IE) is being applied widely, despite the absence of controlled data that demonstrates that outcomes are equivalent to those ...

Durham, NC and Rochester, MN - Two new studies published in the June 22, 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association provide some perspective on the temporal trends in infective ...

Infective endocarditis is an infection in the heart valves or endocardium. The endocardium is the lining of the interior surfaces of the chambers of the heart. This condition is usually caused by ...

November 24, 2011 (Chicago, Illinois) — Around the world, surgery decreased in-hospital mortality by one-fourth and one-year mortality by more than half compared with medical therapy in patients with ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In nested case-control and self-controlled analyses, researchers evaluated the association between traumatic ...

Patients with specific cardiac conditions such as valvular heart disease and congenital abnormalities, or those requiring a pacemaker, should practice good dental and skin hygiene to help prevent rare ...

(HealthDay News) – Patients with infective endocarditis involving implanted cardiac devices experience high in-hospital and one-year mortality rates, particularly if there is valve involvement. Eugene ...

Death rates related to infective endocarditis declined in most adults across the U.S. within the last two decades, yet accelerated among young adults ages 25 to 44 years old, according to new research ...