Category: Endocarditis

Enterococcal bacteremia and the risk of infective endocarditis – No Go

Enterococcal infections and bacteremia incidence have been increasing over the past decades, with enterococcal endocarditis representing 10% of all cases of infective endocarditis (1). This makes it the third most common organism implicated in IE, after Staphylococcus and streptococcus, and it is more prevalent in patients who are not drug abusers. Enterococcal bacteremia by itself

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Surgery in Native Valve Infective Endocarditis

In general, this tends to be a tricky subject. Add that to the fact that there are varying recommendations from different societies, it becomes difficult to figure out the who and when (I assume the surgeons will figure out the how). Here, we will look at timing of surgical intervention in left sided native infective

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Q Fever and Clotting!

A pair of Q fever studies: Million, Matthieu, et al. “Thrombosis and Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome During Acute Q Fever: a Cross-sectional Study.” Medicine, vol. 96, no. 29, 2017, pp. e7578. This is a cross-sectional study from the French National Referral Center for Q fever that sought to determine whether thrombosis in acute Q fever patients was associated

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