Endocarditis, Bacterial

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Prognostic Model of Persistent Bacteremia and Mortality in Complicated Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection. 
  • A comparison of HIV-positive patients with and without infective endocarditis: an echocardiographic study--the Emory Endocarditis Group experience. 
  • A five-year-old girl with acute renal failure and multiple cerebral infractions. 
  • A man with chest pain and glomerulonephritis. 
  • Addressing the Menace of Enterococcal Endocarditis. 
  • All Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia-inducing strains can cause infective endocarditis: Results of GWAS and experimental animal studies. 
  • An Approach to Improve the Negative Predictive Value and Clinical Utility of Transthoracic Echocardiography in Suspected Native Valve Infective Endocarditis. 
  • An evaluation of the Duke criteria in 25 pathologically confirmed cases of prosthetic valve endocarditis. 
  • Analysis of the genotype and virulence of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from patients with infective endocarditis. 
  • Antibiotic Prophylaxis and Incidence of Endocarditis Before and After the 2007 AHA Recommendations. 
  • Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Infective Endocarditis. 
  • Antistaphylococcal β-Lactams versus Vancomycin for Treatment of Infective Endocarditis Due to Methicillin-Susceptible Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci: a Prospective Cohort Study from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis. 
  • Aortic Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. 
  • Aortic valvular disease. Comparison of types and their medical and surgical management. 
  • Aorto-cavitary fistulous tract formation in infective endocarditis: clinical and echocardiographic features of 76 cases and risk factors for mortality. 
  • Argatroban for anticoagulation during cardiopulmonary bypass in an infant. 
  • Association between the timing of surgery for complicated, left-sided infective endocarditis and survival. 
  • Association of troponin T, detected with highly sensitive assay, and outcomes in infective endocarditis. 
  • Associations between the genotypes of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream isolates and clinical characteristics and outcomes of bacteremic patients. 
  • Bacteremia, Sepsis, and Infective Endocarditis Associated with Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Bacterial endocarditis caused by Oerskovia turbata. 
  • Bacterial endocarditis in a child with a Broviac catheter. 
  • Bacterial endocarditis in hemodialysis patients. 
  • Bacterial endocarditis in infants and children. 
  • Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii subsp. nov., isolated from dogs; Bartonella vinsonii subsp. vinsonii; and emended description of Bartonella vinsonii. 
  • Cardiac manifestations of Q fever infection: case series and a review of the literature. 
  • Case report of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis after navel piercing. 
  • Ceftriaxone once daily for four weeks compared with ceftriaxone plus gentamicin once daily for two weeks for treatment of endocarditis due to penicillin-susceptible streptococci. Endocarditis Treatment Consortium Group. 
  • Classification of community-acquired endocarditis due to coagulase-negative staphylococci. 
  • Clinical MRSA isolates from skin and soft tissue infections show increased in vitro production of phenol soluble modulins. 
  • Clinical characteristics and outcome of aortic endocarditis with periannular abscess in the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database. 
  • Clinical characteristics and outcome of infective endocarditis due to Abiotrophia and Granulicatella compared to Viridans group streptococci. 
  • Clinical characteristics and outcomes of diabetic patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis. 
  • Clinical information determines the impact of transesophageal echocardiography on the diagnosis of infective endocarditis by the duke criteria. 
  • Clinical management of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: a review. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. Taken out of context. 
  • Coagulase-negative staphylococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis--a contemporary update based on the International Collaboration on Endocarditis: prospective cohort study. 
  • Coagulase-negative staphylococci and endocarditis: reappraisal in the 21st century. 
  • Colonial morphology of staphylococci on Memphis agar: phase variation of slime production, resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics, and virulence. 
  • Community-acquired prosthetic valve endocarditis due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Contemporary clinical profile and outcome of prosthetic valve endocarditis. 
  • Corynebacterium endocarditis of a percutaneously placed transcatheter pulmonary valve. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of transesophageal echocardiography to determine the duration of therapy for intravascular catheter-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Culture-negative prosthetic valve endocarditis with concomitant septicemia due to a nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae biotype gravis isolate in a patient with multiple risk factors. 
  • Current best practices and guidelines. Assessment and management of complications in infective endocarditis. 
  • Current best practices and guidelines. Assessment and management of complications in infective endocarditis. 
  • Current features of infective endocarditis in elderly patients: results of the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Current outcomes for tricuspid valve infective endocarditis surgery in North America. 
  • Current recommendations and uncertainties for surgical treatment of infective endocarditis: a comparison of American and European cardiovascular guidelines. 
  • Daptomycin compared to standard therapy for the treatment of native valve endocarditis. 
  • Daptomycin versus standard therapy for bacteremia and endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Daptomycin versus vancomycin plus gentamicin for treatment of bacteraemia and endocarditis due to Staphylococcus aureus: subset analysis of patients infected with methicillin-resistant isolates. 
  • Diabetes mellitus and insulin therapy in infective endocarditis. 
  • Diagnosing endocarditis in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia--reply. 
  • Diagnostic methods current best practices and guidelines for isolation of bacteria and fungi in infective endocarditis. 
  • Dialysis access infections. 
  • Early predictors of in-hospital death in infective endocarditis. 
  • Echocardiographic Findings Predict In-Hospital and 1-Year Mortality in Left-Sided Native Valve Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis: Analysis From the International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Prospective Echo Cohort Study. 
  • Echocardiographic detection and clinical significance of left atrial vegetations in active infective endocarditis. 
  • Echocardiographic documentation of vegetative lesions in infective endocarditis: clinical implications. 
  • Echocardiographic evaluation of tricuspid valve endocarditis: an M mode and two dimensional study. 
  • Echocardiography in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Echocardiography in infective endocarditis. 
  • Editorial commentary: NOVA score to predict endocarditis in patients with enterococcal bacteremia: sticking to valves or to scores? 
  • Effect of Vancomycin or Daptomycin With vs Without an Antistaphylococcal β-Lactam on Mortality, Bacteremia, Relapse, or Treatment Failure in Patients With MRSA Bacteremia: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Emergence of coagulase-negative staphylococci as a cause of native valve endocarditis. 
  • Emergence of endocarditis due to group D streptococci: findings derived from the merged database of the International Collaboration on Endocarditis. 
  • Endocarditis caused by Bacillus subtilis. 
  • Endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin. 
  • Endocarditis from Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Endocarditis in a dog due to infection with a novel Bartonella subspecies. 
  • Endocarditis localized to the tricuspid valve: report of a case. 
  • Endovascular treatment of distal intracranial aneurysms with Onyx 18/34. 
  • Enterococcal endocarditis in the beginning of the 21st century: analysis from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Enterococcal endocarditis: 107 cases from the international collaboration on endocarditis merged database. 
  • Enterococcal prosthetic valve infective endocarditis: report of 45 episodes from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis-merged database. 
  • Exebacase for patients with Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection and endocarditis. 
  • Extra-intestinal manifestations of salmonella infections. 
  • First reported case of infective endocarditis caused by community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus not associated with healthcare contact in Brazil. 
  • Frequency of infective endocarditis among infants and children with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Gender differences in infective endocarditis: pre- and co-morbid conditions lead to different management and outcomes in female patients. 
  • Genotypic diversity of coagulase-negative staphylococci causing endocarditis: a global perspective. 
  • Gonococcal endocarditis: a new look at an old disease. 
  • HACEK infective endocarditis: characteristics and outcomes from a large, multi-national cohort. 
  • Health care-associated native valve endocarditis: importance of non-nosocomial acquisition. 
  • Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Associated With Endocarditis: A Case Years in the Making. 
  • Heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate susceptibility phenotype in bloodstream methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from an international cohort of patients with infective endocarditis: prevalence, genotype, and clinical significance. 
  • High incidence of late infective endocarditis in bovine jugular vein valved conduits. 
  • High-dose daptomycin therapy for left-sided infective endocarditis: a prospective study from the international collaboration on endocarditis. 
  • Identification of bacterial antigens in circulating immune complexes of infective endocarditis. 
  • Imaging techniques for diagnosis of infective endocarditis. 
  • Imaging techniques for diagnosis of infective endocarditis. 
  • Impact of Microbiological Organism Type on Surgically Managed Endocarditis. 
  • Importance of aggressive evaluation in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • In vitro resistance to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein among clinical bacteremic isolates of Staphylococcus aureus correlates with an endovascular infectious source. 
  • In vitro resistance to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein in isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from endocarditis patients correlates with an intravascular device source. 
  • In-hospital and 1-year mortality in patients undergoing early surgery for prosthetic valve endocarditis. 
  • Incidence and outcome of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in hemodialysis patients. 
  • Increasing US rates of endocarditis with Staphylococcus aureus: 1999-2008. 
  • Increasing rates of cardiac device infections among Medicare beneficiaries: 1990-1999. 
  • Infective Endocarditis. 
  • Infective endocarditis caused by daptomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis: a case report. 
  • Infective endocarditis due to Staphylococcus aureus: 59 prospectively identified cases with follow-up. 
  • Infective endocarditis. 
  • Infective endocarditis: diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, and management of complications: a statement for healthcare professionals from the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and the Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Stroke, and Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, American Heart Association: endorsed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 
  • Influence of vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration on the outcome of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus left-sided infective endocarditis treated with antistaphylococcal β-lactam antibiotics: a prospective cohort study by the International Collaboration on Endocarditis. 
  • Initial low-dose gentamicin for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis is nephrotoxic. 
  • Injection Drug Use-Associated Infective Endocarditis-Reply. 
  • Isotretinoin and Staphylococcus aureus infection. A possible association. 
  • Kingella kingae endocarditis and a cluster investigation among daycare attendees. 
  • Leptotrichia endocarditis: report of two cases from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis (ICE) database and review of previous cases. 
  • Listeria monocytogenes endocarditis: a clinical and bacteriological report. 
  • M-mode echocardiographic observations during and after healing of active bacterial endocarditis limited to the mitral valve. 
  • M-mode echocardiographic observations in active bacterial endocarditis limited to the aortic valve. 
  • Management Considerations in Infective Endocarditis: A Review. 
  • Management of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Maternal and Fetal Outcomes Associated With Infective Endocarditis in Pregnancy. 
  • Melody pulmonary valve bacterial endocarditis: experience in four pediatric patients and a review of the literature. 
  • Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis isolates are associated with clonal complex 30 genotype and a distinct repertoire of enterotoxins and adhesins. 
  • Microbial Cell-Free DNA Identifies the Causative Pathogen in Infective Endocarditis and Remains Detectable Longer Than Conventional Blood Culture in Patients with Prior Antibiotic Therapy. 
  • Microbiological and genotypic analysis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Molecular epidemiologic evaluation of endocarditis due to Oerskovia turbata and CDC group A-3 associated with contaminated homograft valves. 
  • Mortality and timing of surgery for prosthetic valve endocarditis--reply. 
  • Multicenter collaborative evaluation of a standardized serum bactericidal test as a prognostic indicator in infective endocarditis. 
  • Musical murmurs: clinical implications, long-term prognosis, and echo-phonocardiographic features. 
  • Native valve endocarditis due to coagulase-negative staphylococci: report of 99 episodes from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database. 
  • Native valve infective endocarditis in elderly and younger adult patients: comparison of clinical features and outcomes with use of the Duke criteria and the Duke Endocarditis Database. 
  • Native valve infective endocarditis in elderly and younger adult patients: comparison of clinical features and outcomes with use of the Duke criteria. 
  • Negative predictive value of the Duke criteria for infective endocarditis. 
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae endocarditis on a prosthetic valve. 
  • New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis: utilization of specific echocardiographic findings. Duke Endocarditis Service. 
  • Non-HACEK gram-negative bacillus endocarditis. 
  • Osteomyelitis of the femur complicating Streptococcus milleri endocarditis. 
  • Pasteurella multocida as an infectious cause of endocarditis. 
  • Pasteurella multocida prosthetic valve endocarditis: case report and review. 
  • Percutaneous balloon pulmonic valvuloplasty following treated endocarditis in a patient with congenital pulmonary valve stenosis. 
  • Periannular complications in infective endocarditis involving native aortic valves. 
  • Periannular complications in infective endocarditis involving prosthetic aortic valves. 
  • Phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in vitro and in an experimental endocarditis model. 
  • Phosphatidylcholine Biosynthesis in Mitis Group Streptococci via Host Metabolite Scavenging. 
  • Phylogenetic analysis of viridans group streptococci causing endocarditis. 
  • Physicians' recommendations to patients for use of antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent endocarditis. 
  • Predictors of prognosis and risk of acute renal failure in bacterial endocarditis. 
  • Pregnancy-associated group B streptococcal endocarditis: a report of two fatal cases. 
  • Prevalence of infective endocarditis in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: the value of screening with echocardiography. 
  • Prognostic factors in 61 cases of Staphylococcus aureus prosthetic valve infective endocarditis from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis merged database. 
  • Proposed modifications to the Duke criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis. 
  • Prosthetic valve endocarditis due to coagulase-negative staphylococci: findings from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database. 
  • Pulmonary Valve Endocarditis: The Potential Utility of Multimodal Imaging Prior to Surgery. 
  • Pulmonic valve endocarditis in a normal heart. 
  • Rare Presentation of Endocarditis and Mycotic Brain Aneurysm. 
  • Reduced valve replacement surgery and complication rate in Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis patients receiving acetyl-salicylic acid. 
  • Relationship between Vancomycin MIC and Virulence Gene Expression in Clonal Complexes of Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated from Left-Sided Endocarditis. 
  • Repeat infective endocarditis: differentiating relapse from reinfection. 
  • Repeated echocardiography after the diagnosis of endocarditis: too much of a good thing? 
  • Results of valve replacement with mechanical and biological prostheses in chronic renal dialysis patients. 
  • Rhodococcus equi endocarditis in immunocompetent hosts: report of the first two cases. 
  • Risk factors for infective endocarditis in patients with enterococcal bacteremia: a case-control study. 
  • Risk of endocarditis among patients with prosthetic valves and Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Role of echocardiography in evaluation of patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: experience in 103 patients. 
  • Short-course therapy for catheter-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Sign of the Times: Updating Infective Endocarditis Diagnostic Criteria to Recognize Enterococcus faecalis as a Typical Endocarditis Bacterium. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in the surgical patient: a prospective analysis of 73 postoperative patients who developed Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia at a tertiary care facility. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis: The Grady Memorial Hospital Experience. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis: a consequence of medical progress. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus native valve infective endocarditis: report of 566 episodes from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database. 
  • Successful treatment of Brucella melitensis end-carditis. 
  • Successful treatment of Edwardsiella tarda prosthetic valve endocarditis in a patient with AIDS. 
  • Successful treatment of prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Flavobacterium meningosepticum. 
  • Surgical intervention for tricuspid valve endocarditis: vegetectomy, valve excision, or valve replacement? 
  • Surgical treatment of mitral valve endocarditis in North America. 
  • Surgical treatment of pacemaker and defibrillator lead endocarditis: the impact of electrode lead extraction on outcome. 
  • Surgical treatment of patients with infective endocarditis: changes in temporal use, patient characteristics, and mortality-a nationwide study. 
  • The Evolving Burden of Drug Use Associated Infective Endocarditis in the United States. 
  • The Impact of Discharge Against Medical Advice on Readmission After Opioid Use Disorder-Associated Infective Endocarditis: a National Cohort Study. 
  • The application of official policy. Prophylaxis recommendations for patients with mitral valve prolapse. 
  • The association between vegetation size and surgical treatment on 6-month mortality in left-sided infective endocarditis. 
  • The changing epidemiology of infective endocarditis: the paradox of prophylaxis in the current and future eras. 
  • The clinical utility of transesophageal echocardiography in patients with left-sided infective endocarditis. 
  • The impact of echocardiographic results on treatment decisions for patients suspected of mitral valve prolapse. 
  • The relationship between the initiation of antimicrobial therapy and the incidence of stroke in infective endocarditis: an analysis from the ICE Prospective Cohort Study (ICE-PCS). 
  • The risk of stroke and death in patients with aortic and mitral valve endocarditis. 
  • The risk of valve surgery for endocarditis in patients with dialysis-dependent renal failure. 
  • The role of valve replacement in the treatment of prosthetic valve endocarditis. 
  • The serum bactericidal test. 
  • The use and effect of surgical therapy for prosthetic valve infective endocarditis: a propensity analysis of a multicenter, international cohort. 
  • Therapeutic Issues in Relapsing Enterococcus faecalis Endocarditis. 
  • Treatment of infective endocarditis due to viridans streptococci, This statement was prepared by the ad hoc subcommittee on Treatment of Bacterial endocarditis of the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young. 
  • Trends in endocarditis hospitalizations at US children's hospitals: impact of the 2007 American Heart Association Antibiotic Prophylaxis Guidelines. 
  • Tricuspid endocarditis in a drug addict; detection of tricuspid vegetations by two-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Two-dimensional echocardiographic identification of sinus of Valsalva-right heart fistula due to infective endocarditis. 
  • Two-dimensional global longitudinal strain is superior to left ventricular ejection fraction in prediction of outcome in patients with left-sided infective endocarditis. 
  • Use of surgery in patients with native valve infective endocarditis: results from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database. 
  • Use of the Duke criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis. 
  • Value of transthoracic echocardiography in predicting embolic events in active infective endocarditis. Duke Endocarditis Service. 
  • Valve resection for endocarditis. 
  • Vegetations in endocarditis: big is bad, but is there more to it? 
  • Vibrio fetus endocarditis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Whole-genome sequencing of bloodstream Staphylococcus aureus isolates does not distinguish bacteraemia from endocarditis. 
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  • Milazzo Jr., Angelo Stephen, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics