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 ...

Endocarditis is the infection and inflammation of an individual's endocardium. The heart chambers have an interior surface covered by a special lining, called the endocardium, containing a layer ...

(Annals of Thoracic Surgery) In Japan, the incidence of infective endocarditis increased, while affected patients turned up older and more medically complex. (Journal of the American Heart ...

Among the common diseases of the heart, none has been so resistant to treatment and so invariably fatal as subacute bacterial endocarditis. Although isolated cures occurred before the introduction ...

Along with brushing and flossing at least twice a day, it is recommended that most people see the dentist at least once a ...

Results of preliminary studies suggest that certain cephalosporin C derivatives may be useful in the treatment of bacterial endocarditis. 11–15 Both cephalothin and cephaloridine have the ...

Infective endocarditis. The biofilm matrix is most frequently referred to as being of bacterial origin. Although this applies to biofilms grown on an abiotic surface in the laboratory, biofilm ...

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Combination antibiotic therapy for severe Gram-negative infections, especially Pseudomonas bacteremia and endocarditis, has been a longstanding paradigm in infectious diseases for several reasons ...