Multiple-valve infective endocarditis in a patient with known but untreated ventricular septal defect is described in this case study.

Firefighters were making good progress on a vegetation fire in Happy Valley that quickly prompted the Shasta County Sheriff's Office to order evacuations. The Clement Fire was holding at 20 acres ...

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

Background: The AngioVac mechanical aspiration system has recently emerged in the literature for its use in the percutaneous debulking of intracardiac vegetations and masses. However, description of ...

Case presentation: We describe the case of a 10-year-old patient with a history of aortic vegetation resection with aortic valve repair for Staphylococcus Aureus infective endocarditis of the aortic ...

A workforce on the surgical management of tricuspid endocarditis in patients who inject drugs cautioned against relying on vegetation size and microbiology as criteria for surgery in these ...

Though she remained asymptomatic for endocarditis, an echocardiogram revealed aortic insufficiency and mitral valve vegetation and regurgitation, the authors wrote. The woman continued to take ...

Vegetation length is associated with multiorgan failure at admission, destruction of the aortic annulus in aortic valve endocarditis and all-time mortality. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment of ...