Background: Clinical guidelines currently suggest that transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) be carried out in all patients with suspected endocarditis, but the use of TTE where there is a low ...

Infective endocarditis is a rare but severe disease, the incidence of which seems to have been stable over the past decades. Streptococci are the most frequent causative organisms. In France, ...

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The patient underwent open cardiac surgery for removal of the mass (Figure 4). Histological examination showed nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE). The patient was discharged from the hospital ...