Including cardiac CT in the initial stroke imaging protocol detects more high-risk cardioaortic embolic sources than the current practice of performing later echo, a new study shows.

Infective endocarditis (IE) increases the stroke risk for much longer than previously thought, new findings suggest. The study showed that the risk for stroke begins to increase about 4 months ...

When combined with standard diagnostic tests, functional imaging procedures have been shown to reduce the rate of misdiagnosed cases of infectious endocarditis. According to new research published ...

Infective endocarditis-related stroke was increasingly associated with IV drug use and fewer traditional risk factors such as diabetes and hypertension, a trend researchers attributed to recent ...

A 54-year-old healthy woman was diagnosed with a rare case of infective endocarditis after developing an acute ischemic stroke five weeks after having a tooth extracted. The case report was published ...

They may potentially block the blood supply to an organ, which can result in organ failure or a stroke. In very rare cases, endocarditis may be due to a fungal infection instead of bacteria.

Some complications are possible in those with endocarditis. These complications can be fatal and include pulmonary embolism, seizure, heart failure, and stroke. There are a few ways to prevent ...

HONOLULU, HI—The opioid epidemic that has been raging for more than a decade in North America has ushered in rising rates of infective endocarditis (IE) and stroke, new US data show. The rate of ...

American Stroke Association spokesperson Carolyn Brockington, MD (Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside, New York, NY), said this study supports the idea the endocarditis related to IV drug use ...

They derived the method with a cohort of 178 patients; 147 had undergone CT within 4.5 h of stroke onset, and 31 had undergone CT after 4.5 h.

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