followed by mitral valve (30%) Healthcare contact is an emerging risk factor for non-HACEK Gram-negative endocarditis. Injection drug use is a relatively infrequent cause of endocarditis in this ...

Past, haemolytica infection in man is extremely rare. The case of bacterial endocarditis with perforation of a mitral-valve leaflet caused by this organism reported below is to our knowledge the ...

(2) history of parathyroidectomy; (3) comorbidities affecting vascular or soft tissue calcification, such as amyloidosis and multiple myeloma; (4) other valvular heart diseases, including rheumatic ...

for clinical outcome and its correlation with microbiological etiology in patients with infective endocarditis (IE). Methods: A retrospective single-center analysis was performed from 2007 till 2009.

A scientific statement regarding the diagnosis and management of blood culture-negative endocarditis has been published by the AHA.

Cardiology experts from UCSF Health presented new research and clinical findings at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 74th Annual Scientific Session and Expo in Chicago, March 29-31.

Bacterial pathogenesis is the process by which bacteria infect and cause disease in a host. Not all bacteria are pathogens and have the ability for pathogenesis (also known as virulence ...

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