In-hospital mortality for left-sided infective endocarditis is strongly associated with sepsis and the failure to complete ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts — Men are more likely than women to be affected by infective endocarditis (IE), and left-sided disease is more common than right-sided disease. These findings come from a 12-year ...

Infectious endocarditis (IE) represents a severe medical condition marked by infectious inflammation of the heart's inner tissues, primarily affecting the valves. Despite its relative rarity, IE's ...

Background.The culture of removed cardiac tissues during cardiac surgery of left-sided infective endocarditis (LSIE) helps to guide antibiotic treatment. Nevertheless, the prognostic information of a ...

A workforce on the surgical management of tricuspid endocarditis in patients who inject drugs cautioned against relying on vegetation size and microbiology as criteria for surgery in these patients.

For people who require surgery to treat infective endocarditis (IE) on the backdrop of injected drug use, the addiction is far more lethal than the surgery itself and merits close attention, according ...