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CoNS endocarditis is common and serious, with high mortality but improving prognosis. A major study explores key insights.

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

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Background: Up to 5% of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) develop intracranial mycotic aneurysms (MA) with nearly 25% of these patients having multiple intracranial aneurysms. Mortality rates ...

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 ...

Demisha Jennings, 32, visited the dentist to get a tooth pulled several years ago in Indiana but on returning home, she found the open wound in her mouth became infected.

This case links T pallidum to infectious endocarditis with severe damage to both aortic and mitral valves, in addition to confirmed syphilitic myocarditis, a long-forgotten complication. It occurred 4 ...

aDepartment of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada bDepartment of Pathology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada cDepartment of Medicine ...