TOPIC: Cardiovascular Disease TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE), "marantic", or "Libman-Sacks" is a rare entity describing that non-infectious and usually secondary to advanced malignancy, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome. NBTE found on autopsy, however some patients are diagnosed antemort...

infective endocarditis is one of the most severe complications of parenteral drug abuse. the outstanding clinical feature of infective endocarditis in intravenous drug abusers is the high incidence of right-sided valve infection, and the tricuspid valve is involved in 60% to 70% of the cases. we herein report a case of isolated pulmonic valve infective endocarditis with a native pulmonary valve.

Cardiovascular involvement in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been occasionally reported, mainly in the form of case reports. Endocardium derangement in IBD involves endocarditis and subendocardial abscess. Endocarditis may occur as a result of septicemia or due to the prolonged use of total parental nutrition (TPN) catheters or/and immunosuppression. The cause of endocarditis may be bacte...

Previous work from this laboratory (1, 2) has demonstrated that the vasopressin from beef posterior pituitary lobes, after partial purification by the procedure of Kamm et al. (3), can be obtained in a high degree of purity by means of countercurrent distribution with the system 0.09 M p-toluenesulfonic acid-n-butyl alcohol. Although no detectable difference was observed in the physical propert...

Background: Libman-Sacks endocarditis (LSE) is characterized by sterile lesions that commonly affect the aortic and mitral heart valves. Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have been associated with LSE. Cardiac manifestations including LSE could be interrelated with other manifestations and early diagnosis could help in preventing further complications. Case...

By means of direct arterial perfusion of the adrenal glands of the hypophysectomized dog, it has been shown that synthetic lysine, arginine and acetyl arginine vasopressins stimulate the adrenal cortex directly to secrete hydrocortisone. Pressor activity and cortisol-stimulating activity were demonstrated to be independent of each other. Similar polypeptides, such as oxytocin, insulin, glucagon...

Rheumatic fever (RF) is a prevalent healthcare problem in the developing countries. Recurrence of this disorder is often observed in childhood and adolescence. RF can mimic the presentations of infective endocarditis, and clinicians are not really familiar with this issue. Herein, we present a case of recurrent acute rheumatic fever in a patient suspicious of acute bacterial endocarditis due to...

The American Heart Association (AHA) has provided new guidelines for infective endocarditis prophylaxis in dentistry. In this paper, written for dentists, major changes in the updated recommendations which dentists should be aware have been discussed. These recommendations address the impact of oral hygiene and type of dental procedures on high-risk patients, risk of adverse reactions of antibi...

Introduction: Infective endocarditis is defined as infection of a native or prosthetic heart valve, endocardial surface, cardiac device. The causes and epidemiology, well the microbiology disease have evolved over last few decades with doubling average age patients an increased prevalence in indwelling devices. Patients Methods: This retrospective study, including all subjects 20 years who pres...

There are few studies about post-cardiac surgery fungal infections especially by Aspergillus fumigatus. In this paper we report a case of Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis after tetralogy of Fallot total correction (TFTC), and permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation. A five-year-old female patient with current history of total correction of tetralogy of fallot was admitted in Rajaie Ca...