Endocarditis is a life-threatening disease that involves inflammation of the endocardium, heart valve, and vascular intima. Endocarditis is caused by pathogenic bacteria - around 90% of the cases are ...

The incidence rate of infective endocarditis - a rare but often fatal inflammation of the heart valves - among patients with cocaine use disorder or opioid use disorder increased from 2011 to 2022, ...

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare but often deadly complication for patients whose aortic stenosis is treated with a transcatheter heart valve or with surgery, according to a new analysis of ...

A strange bump on a 27-year-old man's hand turned out to indicate a serious health issue. The man told medical staff that in addition to the odd lump, he'd recently lost 26 pounds and had been dealing ...

Anemia and transfusion of red blood cells are common in patients undergoing valve surgery for infective endocarditis, and ...

The rarity of endocarditis due to Klebsiella species limits its recognition and awareness of its often malignant course. We describe two recent cases of Klebsiella pneumoniae endocarditis and review ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infective endocarditis is an infection of the endocardial surface of the heart involving at least one heart ...

The mouth is a breeding ground for bacteria, most of which are harmless so long as they don't enter the bloodstream. When microbes do cross into the blood and enter the heart, vulnerable valves can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There has been a dramatic increase in the number of staphylococcal bacteremias and cases of infective ...

People who inject drugs are dying at an alarming rate from endocarditis, a serious but treatable heart-valve infection. But their odds of survival improve dramatically, even five years after their ...

Symptoms set in rapidly and this is followed usually by infective clots or emboli getting dislodged from the heart to various regions of the body with disastrous resulting in shock and organ damage.