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Questions discussed in this category

Do you routinely perform echocardiography in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia deemed low risk for metastatic infection, or do you selectively omit it based on specific clinical criteria?

Hendriks, et al., PMID 38576380

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Would you recommend starting a moderate-intensity statin in a patient under the age of 40 years old with HIV and a 10-year ASCVD risk estimate below 5%?

The REPRIEVE trial included participants who were between 40 and 75 years old.

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How long would you treat a patient with recent history of TAVR presenting with E faecalis bacteremia with unclear source with TEE showing thickened valves but no obvious vegetation?

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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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When would you consider percutaneous mechanical aspiration of vegetation in right-sided endocarditis?

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Papers discussed in this category

The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2017-12

Contracts with people who inject drugs following valve surgery: Unrealistic and misguided expectations.

Tex Heart Inst J, 2022 Nov 1

Use of AngioVac Vacuum Aspiration for Refractory Endocarditis in a Postoperative Mustard Patient.

Circulation, 2020 Dec 17

2020 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Catheter Cardiovasc Interv, 2022 Jul 26

Treatment of cardiac device-related infective endocarditis utilizing the new T20 curve catheter and flow saver with the Inari mechanical aspiration system.

Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg, 2020 Sep 25

Percutaneous aspiration of vegetation from tricuspid valve infective endocarditis.

JACC Case Rep, 2022 May 04

Case Series of Percutaneous Mechanical Aspiration of Mitral Valve Endocarditis.

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.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2023 Jan 31

Infective Endocarditis After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: JACC State-of-the-Art Review.

JACC. Cardiovascular interventions, 2022 Jun 13

Long-Term Follow-Up of Hypoattenuated Leaflet Thickening After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.

JACC. Cardiovascular imaging, 2017 Aug 16

Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis After TAVR: Value of a Multimodality Imaging Approach.

The New England journal of medicine, 2018 Aug 28

Partial Oral versus Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment of Endocarditis.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2023 Sep 11

Real-World Application of Oral Therapy for Infective Endocarditis: A Multicenter, Retrospective, Cohort Study.

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