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 ...

Furthermore, elderly patients with several comorbid conditions, immunocompromised status, and recent GI and/or genitourinary infection ... consideration of bacterial endocarditis in the above ...

was in congestive failure when the diagnosis of bacterial endocarditis was first made. Since recovery he has had two bouts of mild congestive failure without evidence of infection. A third patient ...

The link between bacterial infections and heart valve disease Infective endocarditis: The major connection between bacterial infections and heart valve disease is infective endocarditis (IE).

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 ...

In November, 1964, because of an upper-respiratory-tract infection he was treated ... In this study 4 patients with bacterial endocarditis who were allergic to penicillin were treated with ...

CRBSI can lead to further infectious complications, such as infective endocarditis, septic pulmonary emboli, osteomyelitis and abscesses (Box 1), as a result of hematogenous seeding and ...

Links between oral microbes and cardiovascular disease: Oral Streptococcus bacteria are major mediators of a form of cardiovascular disease known as infective endocarditis (IE). This is due to their ...