A new modeling study suggests that when patients who inject opioids continue an antibiotic treatment for infective endocarditis outside of the hospital, they experienced better long-term health ...

Treating intravenous drug users for endocarditis — inflammation of the heart valve related to infection — is putting physicians in harrowing ethical territory, according to a report from NPR. While ...

CHF: Congestive heart failure; CI: Contraindication; DM: Diabetes mellitus; ICU: Intensive care unit; IE: Infective endocarditis; iv.: Intravenous; LV: Left ventricle ...

Infective endocarditis (IE) is by far the most common cardiovascular infection worldwide. Despite the medical and surgical advances, this condition remains associated with considerable mortality and ...

Increased injection drug use has led to a spike in cases of the life-threatening heart condition endocarditis, with cases rapidly accelerating since the onset of Covid-19. The increased case count is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In nested case-control and self-controlled analyses, researchers evaluated the association between traumatic ...

Sweden is one of the few countries that have removed the dental health recommendation to give prophylactic antibiotics to people at a higher risk of infection of the heart valves, so-called infective ...