A new modeling study suggests that when patients who inject opioids continue an antibiotic treatment for infective endocarditis outside of the hospital, they experienced better long-term health ...

IT IS extremely gratifying for the medical profession to witness progress in therapy, especially when it applies to ailments that were formerly fatal. To the diseases of this kind, such as diabetes, ...

A new treatment can halve hospital stays for some patients with a heart infection (endocarditis), according to late breaking results of the POET trial presented today in a Hot Line Session at ESC ...

The considerable destruction of penicillin in the stomach and the ready absorbability of certain drugs from the sublingual mucous membrane led to a preliminary trial of penicillin by this route in 3 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW ORLEANS — Hospital admissions for infective endocarditis related to IV drug use increased by 436% from 2012 ...

MUNICH — Patients with left-sided infective endocarditis who after stabilization received treatment with oral antibiotics had similar outcomes to those who remained on IV antibiotics and a shorter ...

Infective endocarditis is a fatal disease if left untreated. Antibiotics form the mainstay of treatment of infective endocarditis. To begin with, an empirical antibiotic treatment is initiated. This ...

Recommended antibiotic regimes to treat infective endocarditis vary between guidelines. In a new review of clinical benefits and harms among different antibiotics, no clear evidence was found to ...

Improved cardiac imaging technologies allow better visualisation of vegetations. Based on the characteristics of these the duration of treatment is adjusted. Large vegetations have been demonstrated ...

CHF: Congestive heart failure; CI: Contraindication; DM: Diabetes mellitus; ICU: Intensive care unit; IE: Infective endocarditis; iv.: Intravenous; LV: Left ventricle ...

When is the proper time to operate on patients with acute left-sided endocarditis? The authors of this study randomly assigned patients with acute infective endocarditis to early surgery within 48 ...