Endocarditis

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 3-Year Outcomes in High-Risk Patients Who Underwent Surgical or Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. 
  • A comparative clinicopathologic study of endogenous mycotic endophthalmitis: variations in clinical and histopathologic changes in candidiasis compared to aspergillosis. 
  • A meta-analysis of medical versus surgical therapy for Candida endocarditis. 
  • Amphotericin B lipid complex in the treatment of experimental cryptococcal meningitis and disseminated candidosis. 
  • Analysis of the impact of early surgery on in-hospital mortality of native valve endocarditis: use of propensity score and instrumental variable methods to adjust for treatment-selection bias. 
  • Ascending aortitis and aortic valve endocarditis in an infant. 
  • Aspergillus clavatus endocarditis involving a normal aortic valve following coronary artery surgery. 
  • Association between surgical indications, operative risk, and clinical outcome in infective endocarditis: a prospective study from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis. 
  • Association between valvular surgery and mortality among patients with infective endocarditis complicated by heart failure. 
  • Basic diagnostic echocardiography. 
  • Candida endocarditis: contemporary cases from the International Collaboration of Infectious Endocarditis Merged Database (ICE-mD). 
  • Candida infective endocarditis. 
  • Candida infective endocarditis: an observational cohort study with a focus on therapy. 
  • Cardiac conduction abnormalities in endocarditis defined by the Duke criteria. 
  • Cardiac operations in patients with functioning renal allografts. 
  • Changing patient characteristics and the effect on mortality in endocarditis. 
  • Clinical presentation, etiology, and outcome of infective endocarditis in the 21st century: the International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Clinical utility of cardiac valve Gram stain and culture in patients undergoing native valve replacement. 
  • Comparison of amphotericin B and N-D-ornithyl amphotericin B methyl ester in experimental cryptococcal meningitis and Candida albicans endocarditis with pyelonephritis. 
  • Coughing up blood: Behçet's disease. 
  • Current best practices and guidelines. Assessment and management of complications in infective endocarditis. 
  • Delayed Sternal Closure in Infant Heart Surgery-The Importance of Where and When: An Analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Determinants of 15-year outcome with 1,119 standard Carpentier-Edwards porcine valves. 
  • Diagnosing pulmonic valve infective endocarditis with positron emission tomography-CT. 
  • Diagnostic methods current best practices and guidelines for isolation of bacteria and fungi in infective endocarditis. 
  • Diagnostic methods. Current best practices and guidelines for isolation of bacteria and fungi in infective endocarditis. 
  • Early surgery in patients with infective endocarditis: a propensity score analysis. 
  • Echocardiographic agreement in the diagnostic evaluation for infective endocarditis. 
  • Echocardiographic risk stratification for early surgery with endocarditis: a cost-effectiveness analysis. 
  • Echocardiography of the mitral valve. 
  • Endocarditis. 
  • Endogenous ocular aspergillosis. 
  • Future challenges and treatment of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia with emphasis on MRSA. 
  • Global and regional burden of infective endocarditis, 1990-2010: a systematic review of the literature. 
  • Impact of early valve surgery on outcome of Staphylococcus aureus prosthetic valve infective endocarditis: analysis in the International Collaboration of Endocarditis-Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Impact of the NICE guideline recommending cessation of antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of infective endocarditis: before and after study. 
  • Infective Endocarditis in Adults: Diagnosis, Antimicrobial Therapy, and Management of Complications: A Scientific Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association. 
  • Infective endocarditis. 
  • Infective endocarditis: a comprehensive overview. 
  • Influence of diabetes mellitus on the clinical manifestations and prognosis of infective endocarditis: a report from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Merged Database. 
  • Influence of the timing of cardiac surgery on the outcome of patients with infective endocarditis and stroke. 
  • Injection Drug Use-Associated Infective Endocarditis-Reply. 
  • Long-term safety and effectiveness of mechanical versus biologic aortic valve prostheses in older patients: results from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery National Database. 
  • Major infection after pediatric cardiac surgery: a risk estimation model. 
  • Management Considerations in Infective Endocarditis: A Review. 
  • Medical vs. Surgical Management of Perivalvular Abscess in Infective Endocarditis: A Propensity Analysis From the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Prospective Cohort Study (ICE-PCS) 
  • Myocardial involvement in Rocky Mountain spotted fever. 
  • Native valve endocarditis due to Candida glabrata treated without valvular replacement: a potential role for caspofungin in the induction and maintenance treatment. 
  • Negative Predictive Value of Transthoracic Echocardiography for Infective Endocarditis in the Modern Era 
  • One-year outcome following biological or mechanical valve replacement for infective endocarditis. 
  • Outcomes and prosthesis choice for active aortic valve infective endocarditis: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Outcomes for endocarditis surgery in North America: a simplified risk scoring system. 
  • Paecilomyces varioti endocarditis on a prosthetic aortic valve. 
  • Pathogenesis of fungal infection on heart valve prosthesis. 
  • Pulmonary artery catheter use with left-sided active endocarditis: deal or no deal? 
  • Relation of level of B-type natriuretic peptide with outcomes in patients with infective endocarditis. 
  • Repeat endocarditis: analysis of risk factors based on the International Collaboration on Endocarditis - Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Reply to Tleyjeh and Baddour. 
  • Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Association Between Surgical Indications, Operative Risk, and Clinical Outcome in Infective Endocarditis: A Prospective Study From the International Collaboration on Endocarditis". 
  • Revisiting the effect of referral bias on the clinical spectrum of infective endocarditis in adults. 
  • Risk of Infective Endocarditis in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in a tropical setting: patient outcome and impact of antibiotic resistance. 
  • Stroke location, characterization, severity, and outcome in mitral vs aortic valve endocarditis. 
  • Subacute bacterial endocarditis. 
  • Surgical perspectives on aortic valve endocarditis. 
  • Techniques for real-time two-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • The 2013 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Guidelines for mechanical circulatory support: executive summary. 
  • Trends in infective endocarditis hospitalisations at United States children's hospitals from 2003 to 2014: impact of the 2007 American Heart Association antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines. 
  • Tricuspid valve Candida endocarditis. Successful treatment with valve-sparing debridement and antifungal chemotherapy in a multiorgan transplant recipient. 
  • Two-dimensional echocardiographic assessment of vegetative endocarditis. 
  • Update on infective endocarditis. 
  • Use of Multimodality Imaging in Diagnosing Invasive Fungal Diseases of the Heart. 
  • Utility of Multi-modal Imaging in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Valve Endocarditis 
  • Validated Risk Score for Predicting 6-Month Mortality in Infective Endocarditis. 
  • When the Cat's Out of the Bag: Searching for Portals of Entry in Infective Endocarditis. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Brennan, J. Matthew, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Steinbach, William J., Professor of Pediatrics, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship