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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Results of preliminary studies suggest that certain cephalosporin C derivatives may be useful in the treatment of bacterial endocarditis. 11–15 Both cephalothin and cephaloridine have the ...

Endocarditis cases have been rising in recent decades—and researchers believe that the increase in the number of people who have pacemakers may be the reason. Bacterial infections are ...

Endocarditis is a type of infection where bacteria attach to the inner valves of an affected individual's heart muscle. A heart valve is a flap of tissue that opens and closes to regulate blood ...

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 ...

The Duke criteria for endocarditis are summarized below. These were originally proposed in 1994 to help establish the diagnosis of endocarditis. Two major and one minor criteria are needed to ...

we anticipate an increase in incidence of non-HACEK Gram-negative bacterial endocarditis in the future. Second, while surgery was considered the cornerstone of therapy for non-HACEK Gram-negative ...