A study compared clinical characteristics and outcomes between patients with TAVI-IE treated with cardiac surgery and antibiotics and those treated with antibiotics only.
In a Q&A, Asher Schranz, MD, MPH, discusses the importance of physician collaboration in the treatment of patients with drug use-associated infective endocarditis.
Investigators analyzed mortality and clinical, laboratory, and echocardiography parameters possibly impacting health outcomes in BCPE vs BCNE.
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.
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.
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.
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 people who inject vs those do not inject drugs were found to significantly differ.
This retrospective study aims to shed light on the relationship between splenic infarction and infection.
Study authors assessed the association between mortality and age, history of cardiac surgery, and other risk factors in patients undergoing surgery for infective endocarditis.
