A recent New York Times article described a harrowing situation faced by some people who inject drugs and develop endocarditis, a life-threatening infection caused by bacteria that enter the ...

BEFORE the antibiotic era subacute bacterial endocarditis was almost invariably a fatal complication in congenital and acquired heart disease. 1–3 The offending organism was Streptococcus viridans in ...

Cases of endocarditis - infection of the heart valves - have risen dramatically in recent years as a result of the opioid crisis. In London, Ontario 55 per cent of people who experience heart valve ...

High rates of morbidity and mortality after valve replacement surgery were seen in patients with substance use disorder-related infective endocarditis, according to a study published in the Annals of ...

A workforce on the surgical management of tricuspid endocarditis in patients who inject drugs cautioned against relying on vegetation size and microbiology as criteria for surgery in these patients.

Strategies for surgery to treat left-sided infective endocarditis (IE) differ between the US and Europe, in large part because the evidence base is limited, according to a new review that compares ...

Patients who survived at least 90 days after valvular surgery for infective endocarditis experienced higher mortality and a greater burden of hospitalisation in the year following discharge than those ...

Sarah Bolin's heart infection got so bad last month, the longtime heroin user was passing out by the time she got to Cincinnati's Christ Hospital. She was relieved the infection — called endocarditis ...

Survival of patients with type 2 diabetes deteriorates after more than 3 years following heart valve surgery because of infective endocarditis (IE). Patients with diabetes also tend to have increased ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Study findings indicate that an increased scrutiny of surgical outcomes has contributed to an approximately 30% ...

Background. There has been no systematic evaluation of outcome after surgery for infective endocarditis with respect to duration of antibiotic treatment. Methods. We performed a retrospective chart ...