Endocarditis

Questions discussed in this category

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

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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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How do you approach mitral valve endocarditis associated with a large vegetation size and severe mitral regurgitation, but without any heart failure, hemodynamic instability or valve destruction?

While the current guidelines favor early surgery (within 48 hrs of diagnosis) for this population based on the results of the EASE trial (link attache...

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When would you consider percutaneous mechanical aspiration of vegetation in right-sided endocarditis?

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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

N Engl J Med, 2012 Jun 28

Early surgery versus conventional treatment for infective endocarditis.

The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2017-12

Contracts with people who inject drugs following valve surgery: Unrealistic and misguided expectations.

Tex Heart Inst J, 2022 Nov 1

Use of AngioVac Vacuum Aspiration for Refractory Endocarditis in a Postoperative Mustard Patient.

Circulation, 2020 Dec 17

2020 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Catheter Cardiovasc Interv, 2022 Jul 26

Treatment of cardiac device-related infective endocarditis utilizing the new T20 curve catheter and flow saver with the Inari mechanical aspiration system.

Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg, 2020 Sep 25

Percutaneous aspiration of vegetation from tricuspid valve infective endocarditis.

JACC Case Rep, 2022 May 04

Case Series of Percutaneous Mechanical Aspiration of Mitral Valve Endocarditis.

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.

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.

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