High BMI and poor physical fitness during later adolescence increase the risk of both contracting and dying from sepsis and other severe bacterial infections in adulthood, according to a study from ...
High BMI and poor physical fitness during later adolescence increase the risk of both contracting and dying from sepsis and other severe bacterial infections in adulthood, according to a study from ...
Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2010;8(8):879-885. We recommend a thorough evaluation of patients with non-HACEK Gram-negative endocarditis to assess the necessity of surgical intervention. Decision to ...
How do the 2007 IE prevention guidelines differ from the prior (1997 [11]) iteration? There are three major differences in the current version. The "highest-risk" group for whom antibiotic prophylaxis ...
Guidelines regarding antibiotic prophylaxis for the prevention of infective endocarditis in dental patients are misinterpreted, not carried out properly, and need clarification. The commentary was ...
In-hospital mortality for left-sided infective endocarditis is strongly associated with sepsis and the failure to complete ...
In young adult patients with infective endocarditis, age-adjusted mortality rates for stroke-related mortality have significantly increased in the past 2 decades. Age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMR) ...
Undersized donor hearts were indeed associated with more post-transplantation mortality -- but only among complex transplant recipients, a Nashville center found. (Annals of Thoracic Surgery) In Japan ...
There is no causal link between periodontitis and infective endocarditis (IE), indicating that past clinical practices may have overstated the role of periodontitis in preventing the condition, ...