Infective endocarditis (ie, the infection of a native or prosthetic heart valve, the endocardium or implanted cardiac device1) is a clinical chameleon whose epidemiology and natural history are in ...

All patients with Gram-negative bacterial endocarditis should be managed in consultation with an infectious diseases specialist. Comments 3090D553-9492-4563-8681-AD288FA52ACE ...

Objective The goal of this prospective observational study was to identify adverse events (AEs) related to the use of intravenous access sites used for infective endocarditis (IE) treatment in a ...

More and more patients are operated on during the active phase of infective endocarditis (IE).1 Between 1991 and 1999, in France, the rate of cardiac surgery has increased from 31% to 50%.1 This may, ...

Background Native aortic and mitral valve infective endocarditis (AVE and MVE, respectively) are usually grouped together as left-sided native valve infective endocarditis (LNVE), while the ...

INTRODUCTION. Infective Endocarditis (IE) is a rare infectious condition of the endocardial surface of the heart. Despite current advances in its diagnosis and treatment modalities, IE continues to ...

Singh, B. , Davis, W. , Ethakota, J. , Grover, P. and Kutait, A. (2025) A Rare Case of Gastrointestinal Malakoplakia with ...

Infectious diseases, particularly viral infections like herpesviruses, are associated with an increased risk of dementia, possibly through mechanisms involving neuroinflammation and immune responses.

Multimodality imaging methods detect infection sources in a known case of cardiac device or prosthetic valve patients with high suspicion for infective endocarditis. Following recent guidelines and ...

An MRI showed that the infection had spread and was covering the 8-year-old’s brain and spinal cord. “Basically, at that point in time, there was nothing they could do,” Dahlberg revealed.