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 ...

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 ...

Relapsing infective endocarditis (IE), especially when caused ... can be postponed to allow a period of days or weeks antibiotic treatment under careful clinical and echocardiographic observation.

Doing so can help you get the treatment you need and prevent serious complications from occurring. Endocarditis can be difficult to recognize since many of the symptoms can mimic the signs of ...

Endocarditis is the infection and inflammation ... their bloodstream and bind to damaged tissues in the heart. Without treatment, this type of infection can have serious complications, including ...

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 ...

This is the second most common indication for surgery [8] and encompasses persistent bacteremia, extension of perivalvular infection and resistant organisms. An important distinction is the ...