Younger patients with cardiac hardware, intravenous drug use, or who are receiving dialysis are at increased risk for Candida endocarditis.

Valve surgery offered survival benefits in Candida endocarditis but came with increased hospital stay and cost burdens.

Infective endocarditis is a rare but severe disease, the incidence of which seems to have been stable over the past decades. Streptococci are the most frequent causative organisms. In France, ...

Infective endocarditis is a rare condition with an incidence of less than 10 per 100 000 population/year. It is, however, associated with a high mortality and morbidity. Accepted clinical practice has ...

Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment, infective endocarditis still shows considerable morbidity and mortality rates. The dermatological examination in patients with suspected infective ...

Case Resolution: Infective Endocarditis Treated with TAVR Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing ...

Background The term "infective endocarditis" (IE) is used to describe a set of clinically different entities. The morbidity and mortality of IE remains high. Right sided native valve IE generally ...

This review focuses on determinants of long-term morbidity/mortality and advantages of an early surgical-medical approach compared with medical therapy alone for treating infectious endocarditis.

Our data demonstrate the destructive feature of infective endocarditis due to C. diphtheriae and demonstrate the circulation of different C. diphtheriae clones exhibiting invasive properties. The data ...

Objective The goal of this prospective observational study was to identify adverse events (AEs) related to the use of intravenous access sites used for infective endocarditis (IE) treatment in a ...