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 ...

SAN ANTONIO -- In response to the opioid epidemic, a primer to treating infective endocarditis (IE) specifically related to drug use was released by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). A workforce ...

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 ...

Patients who survived at least 90 days after valvular surgery for infective endocarditis experienced higher mortality and a greater burden of hospitalisation in the year following discharge than those ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients in stable condition who had endocarditis on the left side of the heart caused by streptococci, Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus aureus, or coagulase-negative staphylococci were randomly ...