Injection drug use is a relatively infrequent cause of endocarditis ... the diagnosis and assess for cardiac complications such as intracardiac abscesses and paravalvular extension of infection.

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 ...

Should you receive a diagnosis for this heart infection, your healthcare team will recommend a proper treatment plan to help reduce your symptoms. Most endocarditis treatments include antibiotics ...

During these hospitalizations extensive diagnostic studies were performed ... In this study 4 patients with bacterial endocarditis who were allergic to penicillin were treated with cephalosporin ...

Endocarditis is the infection and inflammation of an ... and blood tests may be utilized in the diagnosis of endocarditis. Over forty percent of endocarditis patients experience muscle and joint ...

Historically, non-HACEK Gram-negative endocarditis has remained an infrequent diagnosis and one postulate ... in incidence of non-HACEK Gram-negative bacterial endocarditis in the future.