Patients who underwent mitral valve replacement had a more than threefold higher 10-year rate of infective endocarditis than those at moderate risk for the disease, whereas undergoing mitral valve ...

Different treatments for mitral valve endocarditis have been compared and their effectiveness measured during a presentation to cardiothoracic surgeons attending the 82nd Annual Scientific Congress ...

A 67-year-old man with a history of 17-day fever and weakness presented with dyspnea on exertion, which had been worsening in the last few days. He had no history of disease, and there was no evidence ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 128, Supplement. Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole (Nov., 1973), pp. S771-S773 (3 pages) A case of endocarditis due to Pseudomonas maltophilia was presumably ...

Posterior mitral valve leaflet aneurysms are extremely rare complications of infective endocarditis of the aortic valve. Destruction of the aortic valve results in a regurgitant jet that strikes the ...

A 63-year-old man came to our emergency department with a 2-week history of progressive exercise dyspnea and diastolic murmur of volume 2/6 with the punctum maximum at Erb’s point. Six years earlier ...

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Severely degenerated mitral valve and proliferative vegetations were identified within the yellow circle. Infective endocarditis was definitively diagnosed through blood cultures and echocardiography ...

Figure 1. A 56-year-old man presented with severe lumbar pain, a seven-week history of fever (temperature as high as 39°C), a 10-kg weight loss, and a recent history of treatment with cephalosporins.

The purpose of the present study was to assess the late results of subacute bacterial endocarditis on the cardiac status of patients. Hence we selected a group of patients who were treated a minimum ...

There are several types of heart conditions that can be life-threatening if not treated on time. This includes endocarditis, a condition that occurs when bacteria or other germs enter the bloodstream ...