INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Little is known about the prognosis of infective endocarditis in women. The objective of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics and prognosis of infective endocarditis in women diagnosed with the condition at our center during the last 20 years. METHODS Comparative analysis of 288 patients diagnosed with infective endocarditis between 1987 and 200...

UNLABELLED Infective endocarditis in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is rare. Management of this disease is challenging due to the unique features of dynamic pressure gradient over the left ventricular outflow tract and its unpredictable interaction with the management of sepsis. The added complexity of infective endocarditis further complicates an already difficult situation. A 72-year...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To assess the clinical characteristics and management of infective endocarditis at a teaching hospital without cardiac surgery facilities. METHODS Descriptive case-control study looking at trends. Risk factors, the occurrence of complications, the rate of referral for cardiac surgery, and the mortality rate were assessed. RESULTS The study included 120 patients r...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated patients underwent cardiac valve surgery in the presence of infective endocarditis in an attempt to identify independent predictors of 30-day mortality. METHODS We evaluated 837 consecutive patients underwent cardiac valve surgery from January 2003 to May 2010 in a tertiary hospital in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo (SP), Brazil. The study group comprised patients who...

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical validity of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based molecular methods in the microbiological diagnosis of culture negative infective endocarditis in a group of surgically treated patients. DESIGN Retrospective case-control study. SETTING Reference cardiovascular surgical centre. PATIENTS AND SAMPLES: 15 culture negative patients with infective endocarditis cla...

T here is now evidence that most cases of infective endocarditis are not attributable to an invasive procedure, and bacteremia resulting from daily activities is much more likely to cause infective endocarditis than bacteremia associated with a dental procedure. Thus, the usefulness of antibiotic prophylaxis in this setting has been questioned. In the recently revised American Heart Association...

18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) has recently been added as a major criterion in the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2015 infective endocarditis guidelines. PET/CT is currently used patients with suspected prosthetic valve and cardiac device-related endocarditis. However, value ESC classification clinical impact PET findings are unkno...

Inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, especially the valvular endothelium, chordae tendinae and mural endocardium was first recognized almost 350 years ago. Over the years it has had many names, but is now generally designated infective endocarditis (IE) and has an associated infectious agent. A sterile vegetative process can also affect the valves and is usually referred to as Libman-S...