A 59-year-old woman was admitted with a presumptive diagnosis of infective endocarditis of a prosthetic aortic valve. Six months earlier, she had undergone aortic valve replacement with a porcine valve for the treatment of aortic valve regurgitation, replacement of the ascending aorta with a Dacron tube-graft, a Cox maze operation, and tricuspid ring annuloplasty. Transthoracic echocardiograms ...

Bacterial endocarditis is a deep, difficult-to-cure infection. Although most organisms are highly susceptible to many antibiotics, therapy must be maintained for weeks in order to eradicate the infection. Moreover, recent clinical observations with teicoplanin have reemphasized that treatment failure can occur, even with very susceptible organisms, after conventional durations of therapy (35). ...

Bacterial endocarditis is a deep, difficult-to-cure infection. Although most organisms are highly susceptible to many antibiotics, therapy must be maintained for weeks in order to eradicate the infection. Moreover, recent clinical observations with teicoplanin have reemphasized that treatment failure can occur, even with very susceptible organisms, after conventional durations of therapy (35). ...

Different forest vegetations provide herbivorous small mammals with different resources, forcing adaptation since food habits depend on available resources. We expect differences in vegetation to be reflected the size and shape of skull mandible as a result potentially feeding Therefore, we analyzed craniomandibular characteristics Pallas’s squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus) Vietnam. This speci...

Mural vegetations in the course of infective endocarditis are very rare. We report the case of a patient with an extremely large right ventricular free wall vegetation. Establishing diagnosis in the presence of only mural vegetations on echocardiography scan without valve involvement in the inflammatory process was difficult. In a differential diagnosis, benign and malignant tumours, metastases...

Continuous infusion of vancomycin was evaluated against experimental endocarditis due to heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) and VISA. Animals were infected with hVISA PC1 (vancomycin MIC, 2 mg/liter) or VISA PC3 (vancomycin MIC, 8 mg/liter) and treated for 5 days with constant serum levels of 20 or 40 mg/liter. Vancomycin continuous infusion was unsuccessful, as...

Echocardiography has become a mainstay in the diagnosis of endocarditis. Vegetations were first visualized noninvasively beginning with M-mode echocardiography in the mid-1970s. The evolution of echocardiography, to include first two-dimensional imaging and then Doppler imaging in the 1980s, established echocardiography as the noninvasive test of choice to evaluate for the presence of vegetatio...