The Working Party on Antibiotic Policy (Dutch acronym is SWAB) is a Dutch organisation that develops guidelines for in-hospital antimicrobial therapy of bacterial infectious diseases. This present guideline describes the antimicrobial treatment for adult patients with infective endocarditis. The choice and duration of antimicrobial therapy is determined by the infecting micro-organism, sensitiv...

Infective endocarditis is usually diagnosed using modified Duke's criteria. Our patient had a subacute presentation and a low suspicion for endocarditis during admission, unfortunately leading to her death. Despite advances in diagnostic and therapeutic measures including antibiotic therapy and surgical techniques, morbidity and mortality with staphylococcal infective endocarditis remain high. ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the surgical treatment and outcomes of isolated right-sided infective endocarditis. METHODS From January 1994 to February 2009, 28 patients with isolated right-sided infective endocarditis underwent operation whose clinical data was retrospectively reviewed. There were 18 male and 10 female, age ranged from 10 to 72 years with a mean of 38 years. All of the patients prese...

Right-sided endocarditis, and endocarditis of the tricuspid valve in particular, is a relatively uncommon condition, encountered approximately 5 to 10 percent all cases infectious (IE). The recent increase prevalence right-sided IE attributed intravenous drug abuse as well increased utilization implantable cardiac devices such pacemakers, cardioverter-defi brillators, resynchronization therapy ...

Daptomycin has been used with success for the treatment of right-sided methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) endocarditis. However, its efficacy has not been completely assessed for the treatment of MRSA endocarditis when it is associated with pulmonary septic emboli. Hereby, we present a case of MRSA mitral and tricuspid native valve endocarditis with pulmonary septic emboli, whic...

TOPIC: Cardiovascular Disease TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Right-sided endocarditis is a well-known condition that occurs predominantly in intravenous drug users (IVDA) and patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices, central venous lines, congenital heart disease. The objective of this report to describe rare case right-sided leads cardiogenic shock...