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Endocarditis is a potentially serious infection and inflammation of the heart muscles and valves. Learn about symptoms, what causes it, treatments, and more.

Bacterial endocarditis, or infective endocarditis, is a serious infection that affects the heart’s inner lining and valves. It results from bacteria entering the bloodstream.

Two new studies published this week provide some perspective on the temporal trends in infective endocarditis at the global and community level. According to an editorial accompanying the studies ...

Risk scoring tools like HANDOC and CH-A improved infective endocarditis detection in NBHS bloodstream infections but ...

Subacute bacterial endocarditis is a type of infective endocarditis. It's an infection that occurs when germs such as bacteria enter the bloodstream and attack the lining of the heart valves.

Among the factors that may be responsible for failure to recover organisms from the circulation of some patients with infective endocarditis are the use of antibiotics in etiologically undefined ...

Vähäsarja, N., et al. (2022) Infective endocarditis among high-risk individuals - before and after the cessation of antibiotic prophylaxis in dentistry: a national cohort study.Clinical ...

Endocarditis, also known as infectious endocarditis, is an infection of the endocardium, or inner lining of the heart. For most healthy individuals, the heart is well protected from infection.

It is critical that dentists know that patients with cardiac conditions, including a prosthetic heart valve, should take antibiotics 30 to 60 minutes prior to certain invasive procedures, and ...