Infectious Disease

Endocarditis

Questions discussed in this category

Do you add adjunctive gentamicin and/or rifampin for treatment of prosthetic valve Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis?

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Do you use combination antibiotic therapy for treatment of bacterial endocarditis due to gram-negative bacilli?

1 Answer available

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?

1 Answer available

Would you consider stepping down from an echinocandin to azole therapy prior to the end of an initial six-week course for fluconazole-susceptible Candida albicans endocarditis in the absence of valve surgery?

1 Answer available

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

1 Answer available

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.

The Annals of thoracic surgery, 2016-06

Rifampin for Surgically Treated Staphylococcal Infective Endocarditis: A Propensity Score-Adjusted Cohort Study.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2021 May 04

Is Rifampin Use Associated With Better Outcome in Staphylococcal Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis? A Multicenter Retrospective Study.

Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, 2021 Jul 24

Clinical outcomes of combination versus monotherapy for gram negative non-HACEK infective endocarditis.

Open forum infectious diseases, 2023 Feb 02

Epidemiology and Clinical Outcomes of Non-HACEK Gram-Negative Infective Endocarditis.

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