Blood Culture Positive vs Negative Infective Endocarditis: Surgery Outcomes
Investigators analyzed mortality and clinical, laboratory, and echocardiography parameters possibly impacting health outcomes in BCPE vs BCNE.
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Effects of Fluroquinolone Exposure on Aortic Dissection, Aneurysm Outcomes
Investigators sought to determine whether fluroquinolone use increased the risk for poor clinical outcomes and death in a cohort of patients with aortic dissection or aortic aneurysm.
Endocarditis With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Linked to Higher Stroke Risk
During the AAN 2021 Virtual meeting, researchers presented their study on infective endocarditis and the rate of acute ischemic stroke in patients with and without subarachnoid hemorrhage.
New Biomarkers Predict Mortality, Clinical Features of Infective Endocarditis
Researchers analyzed data from patients with a recent diagnosis of IE hospitalized to see whether PCT, proADM, and copeptin have prognostic value in IE compared with CRP, a known biomarker for IE.
ASA: Endocarditis, Related Strokes Up During Opioid Epidemic
Study authors retrospectively analyzed data to assess the relationship between concomitant intravenous drug use and infective endocarditis.
![Staphylococcus aureus is a rare cause of myocarditis and typically affects immunocompromised patients with sepsis. S aureus myocarditis usually occurs with endocarditis and may result in the formation of abscesses on the heart valves and muscle.5 “As with viral myocarditis, this disease can present with signs and symptoms of acute myocardial infarction, complicating the diagnosis,” wrote the authors of a 2008 case study.12 “Much of the available data on bacterial myocarditis [were] collected before the development of many modern diagnostic tests and before antibiotics [thus] the appropriate workup, diagnosis and treatment remain unclear.”12 A case report published in 2018 described a 44-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis taking methotrexate who was diagnosed with S aureus myocarditis (and associated left ventricular apical thrombus) after having septic shock.13 Complete recovery was achieved with a 12-week course of antibiotics and anticoagulation.](https://www.thecardiologyadvisor.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2019/01/7staphylococcusaureusgetty1_1479047-507x306.jpg)
Etiologies and Characteristics of Infective Endocarditis in PWID
Etiologies and characteristics of infective endocarditis in people who inject vs those do not inject drugs were found to significantly differ.
What Infectious Conditions Are Associated With Splenic Infarction?
This retrospective study aims to shed light on the relationship between splenic infarction and infection.
Age and Previous Cardiac Surgery Increases Mortality Risk in Infective Endocarditis Surgery
Study authors assessed the association between mortality and age, history of cardiac surgery, and other risk factors in patients undergoing surgery for infective endocarditis.
Long-Term Infective Endocarditis Mortality Risk Among Injection Drug Users
Researchers developed a microsimulation model of the natural history of injection opioid use to assess long-term infective endocarditis mortality associated with injection opioid use in the United States.
Evolving Epidemiology of Infective Endocarditis Requires Updated Data
Trends in infective endocarditis microbiology are of clinical concern and require further study and additional data.
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