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 ...

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.

Most patients who underwent valve surgery for infective endocarditis had anemia before surgery and received blood transfusions during their hospital stay. Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion was ...

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare but often deadly complication for patients whose aortic stenosis is treated with a transcatheter heart valve or with surgery, according to a new analysis of ...

(RTTNews) - CytoSorbents Corp. (CTSO), which provides the treatment of life-threatening conditions in intensive care and cardiac surgery using CytoSorb blood purification, made additional comments on ...

A "staggering increase" in the occurrence of drug use–associated infective endocarditis appears to be a consequence of the current opioid epidemic, a new study suggests. "Our results show that ...

Patients with specific cardiac conditions such as valvular heart disease and congenital abnormalities, or those requiring a pacemaker, should practice good dental and skin hygiene to help prevent rare ...

Endocarditis is a life-threatening disease that involves inflammation of the endocardium, heart valve, and vascular intima. Endocarditis is caused by pathogenic bacteria - around 90% of the cases are ...