We present a challenging case of infective endocarditis (IE) diagnosed after visual loss from bilateral ocular choroidal infarction in the absence of retinal vasculitis, typical retinal embolic ...

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 ...

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

Endocarditis is a rare and potentially life-threatening infection of the heart's valves or inner lining. Certain risk factors like having an underlying heart valve problem, using intravenous drugs ...

India's first heart failure registry reveals younger patients, high mortality rates, and varying causes of heart failure.

The following is a summary of “Infective endocarditis caused by Gemella – a retrospective registry-based study,” published in the January 2025 issue of Infectious Disease by Popova et al. In the 2023 ...

Introduction: Stroke is a devastating complication of infective endocarditis (IE) and is associated with poor outcomes. The underlying factors contributing to stroke in IE are not yet fully understood ...

Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) is characterised by sterile vegetations on heart valves and often emerges in hypercoagulable states like malignancy. It is frequently underdiagnosed and ...

mayo.edu Infective endocarditis (IE) is uncommon and has, in the past, been most often caused by viridans group streptococci (VGS). Due to the indolent nature of these organisms, the phrase ‘subacute ...

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 ...

Background: The safety and efficacy of endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for large vessel occlusion (LVO) strokes associated with infective endocarditis (IE) compared to medical management (MM) is ...

BACTERAEMIA and infective endocarditis (IE) are significantly more common within six months after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) compared with elective coronary angiography (CAG), ...