Infective endocarditis (IE) is a serious infection of the heart valves or the inner lining of the heart, often caused by bacteria entering the bloodstream and attaching to damaged areas of the heart.

Consequently, a lack of peripheral manifestations should not dissuade clinicians from consideration of bacterial endocarditis in the above scenario.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...