Internal Medicine

Endocarditis

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

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

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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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?

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Do you start anticoagulation in a patient with infective endocarditis who also has atrial fibrillation and stroke?

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Papers discussed in this category

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.

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.

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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