Non-faecalis and non-faecium enterococci are an occasional cause of bacteremia, and some cases of infective endocarditis caused by these pathogens have been reported. However, the rate of infective endocarditis in non-faecalis and non-faecium enterococcal bacteremia is still undetermined. We compared the clinical features and the rate of infective endocarditis of 70 cases of non-faecalis and no...

Abstract Infectious endocarditis (IE) represents an inflammation of the heart endothelium usually as a result bacterial colonization after trauma. Splenic abscess is rare and dangerous extracardiac manifestation IE. An expert multidisciplinary collaboration necessary for diagnosis treatment strategy this high-risk challenging disease. Valvuloplasty splenectomy are mainstay radical offer excelle...

The term mycotic aneurysm involves an infection of secondary aneurysmal wall to bacterial endocarditis. The 63% of mycotic aneurysms of the superior mesenteric artery are due to embolism from a septic endocarditis. Although most of these aneurysms is diagnosed, due to the increase in diagnostic methods, even a quarter of the superior mesenteric artery aneurysms present with rupture, intestinal ...

Five patients with neonatal infective endocarditis were reviewed, two of whom survived. Infection was caused by Staphylococcus aureus in four and by Candida albicans in one. All cases of bacterial endocarditis had clinical signs of septicaemia, positive blood cultures, thrombocytopenia, microscopic haematuria, and heart murmurs. Three developed skin abscesses early in their illnesses. Three pat...

Background Culture negative infective endocarditis (CNIE) accounts for 2.5 to 31% of all cases of infective endocarditis and is responsible for delay in diagnosis and treatment with profound impact on clinical outcome. Coxiella burnetii is one of the important etiological agents of culture negative infective endocarditis. The present study was undertaken to determine the role of C burnetii as a...

Lactococcus lactis is generally considered a pathogen of lesser significance and usually treated only when isolated in cases like bacterial endocarditis [1, 2]. Due to their low pathogenicity and infrequent isolation in immune-competent persons, it is often disregarded by clinicians especially from the therapeutic stand point. This poses an important question—should we treat the infection or di...

ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (CPG), Silvia G. Priori (Chairperson) (Italy), Maria Angeles Alonso Garcia (Spain), Jean-Jacques Blanc (France), Andrzej Budaj (Poland), Martin Cowie (UK), Veronica Dean (France), Jaap Deckers (The Netherlands), Enrique Fernández Burgos (Spain), John Lekakis (Greece), Bertil Lindahl (Sweden), Gianfranco Mazzotta (Italy), João Morais (Portugal), Ali Oto (Tur...