The usefulness of these Duke criteria in assessing patients with potential infective endocarditis has been validated in several subsequent studies. 38–43 The specificity of the initially ...

In 2001, IDSA established criteria for selecting patients with infective endocarditis (IE) for outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT). Currently, only News News ...

Risk scoring tools like HANDOC and CH-A improved infective endocarditis detection in NBHS bloodstream infections but ...

The diagnositic criteria are diverse, ... Despite all the recent technologic advances in cardiology, there continue to be 10,000-15,000 cases of infective endocarditis (IE) ...

Culture of a pathologic organism is regarded as the “gold standard” for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis. ... The Modified Duke Criteria is the most accepted one. Published on Sep 06, 2014 ...

Infective endocarditis is worth considering as a diagnosis in cases of unexplained malaise or fever with a high CRP, especially if the patient has one or more risk factors. At hospital key ...

Endocarditis can present with many different clinical scenarios, so making the diagnosis can be challenging, says a co-chair of newly issued European guidelines for managing this disease.

Two new studies published this week provide some perspective on the temporal trends in infective endocarditis at the global and community level. According to an editorial accompanying the studies ...

Participants included 2,760 patients with definite infective endocarditis, defined using the modified Duke endocarditis criteria. The researchers found that CDIE was diagnosed in 6.4% of the ...

Infective endocarditis has an estimated annual incidence of 3 to 9 cases per 100,000 persons in industrialized countries. 1–7 The male:female case ratio is more than 2:1. The highest rates are ...

Despite imaging advances, diagnosis of infective endocarditis is not simple, and uncertainty about whether a surgical or nonsurgical approach is best and the timing of intervention can hamper therapy.