Transthoracic echocardiogram has low sensitivity and, if negative, should be followed by TEE to exclude endocarditis. Not all cases of non-HACEK Gram-negative bacterial endocarditis necessarily ...

ONE of the great triumphs of this era of chemotherapy and antibiotics has been achieved in the treatment of bacterial endocarditis. This disease, which before the introduction of the sulfonamides ...

Endocarditis cases have been rising in recent decades—and researchers believe that the increase in the number of people who ...

From the Neurological Unit of the Boston City Hospital and the Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston. * Intern, Boston Psychopathic Hospital. † Assistant professor of neurology ...

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 ...