Rheumatic heart disease, the most common predisposing condition for infective endocarditis in developing countries, is uncommon in developed countries, where the most frequent predisposing cardiac ...

With subacute endocarditis, bacteria home in on already-damaged heart valves. That's why the doctor suggested your son might have had rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever is a strep throat that ...

The majority of patients with infective endocarditis have underlying structural heart disease, and a predisposing condition, such as rheumatic heart disease, counts as a minor Duke criterion.

A positive blood culture in liquid medium should not form a positive basis for a diagnosis of subacute bacterial endocarditis. There is a strong suggestion that rheumatic endocarditis and sub-acute ...

Endocarditis is treated with antibiotics, almost always intravenously to begin with, but complications such as an abscess or heart failure may require surgery, either repair or a valve replacement.

In the past, infective endocarditis was associated with rheumatic heart disease and most often caused by bacteria in the mouth.

Dr Klaus Kallmayer, a heart doctor based at German Heart Centre in Dubai Healthcare City, has highlighted a large incidence of patients presenting with late symptoms of rheumatic endocarditis.

Compared with ischemic heart disease, mortality was two to five times higher in patients with rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease, and infective endocarditis.

Rheumatic fever with heart disease and with aortic insufficiency was diagnosed. The possibility of subacute bacterial endocarditis was considered. 4 Over the next 10 days, the treatment for rheumatic ...