Echocardiography defines morphologic and dynamic features of the vegetation, and plays an important role in deciding when and how the patient should be taken into the operating room. It is also ...

Infective endocarditis (IE) is by far the most common cardiovascular infection worldwide. Despite the medical and surgical advances, this condition remains associated with considerable mortality ...

Endocarditis is the infection and inflammation of an individual's endocardium. The heart chambers have an interior surface covered by a special lining, called the endocardium, containing a layer ...