Night sweats occur as an adverse effect of numerous different types of infections, including endocarditis. An affected individual's immune system responds to the infection-causing pathogen in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The survival rate for endocarditis depends on many factors, such as the type of organism causing the infection, the size and location of the infection, and other underlying conditions. The overall ...

A harsh Grade 5/6 systolic ejection type of murmur was heard best at ... In this study 4 patients with bacterial endocarditis who were allergic to penicillin were treated with cephalosporin ...