General Internal Medicine

Endocarditis

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Is there a role for repeat surveillance blood cultures in patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis without associated cardiac abscess after a 6 week course of antibiotic treatment without surgical intervention?

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What is your approach to diagnosis and evaluation of nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (Libman-Sacks)?

Patient with negative blood cultures, completed 6 weeks of IV antibiotics and vegetation persists. CT imaging without evidence of malignancy. No evide...

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Circulation, 2015 Sep 15

Infective Endocarditis in Adults: Diagnosis, Antimicrobial Therapy, and Management of Complications: A Scientific Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association.

The Annals of thoracic surgery, 2017 Feb 04

Surgical Versus Medical Therapy for Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: A Meta-Analysis of 32 Studies.

European heart journal, 2023 Oct 14

2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of endocarditis.

Lupus, 2018 Oct 05

Resolution of large aortic valve vegetations in antiphospholipid syndrome treated with therapeutic anticoagulation: a report of two cases and literature review.

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