Urgent surgery and preoperative haemodynamic instability strongly predict in-hospital death in native aortic valve ...

UK guidance on infective endocarditis prevention has undergone its most significant change in nearly two decades.

Background Native aortic valve endocarditis continues to present significant operative challenges, often complicated by heart ...

A recent medical case has highlighted the diagnostic challenges of Gonococcal endocarditis, a rare but aggressive infection, ...

Gonococcal endocarditis can present aggressively and evade blood cultures. Read more about diagnosis and management.

Background Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are not currently considered at elevated risk for infective endocarditis (IE) and are excluded from guideline-directed antibiotic prophylaxis ...

Background Despite growing interest in male–female differences in cardiovascular disease, evidence in infective endocarditis ...

Jarle Jortveit, PhD, specialist in internal medicine and cardiac diseases and senior consultant. The author has completed the ICMJE form and reports no conflicts of interest. Leif Eskedal, PhD, ...

Professor D Wray, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Dental Hospital and School, 378 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JZ, UK; D.Wray{at}dental.gla.ac.uk If you wish to ...

Skin is not merely a cosmetic surface but an indicator of several underlying health conditions, which are often overlooked.

Ghirardelli Chocolate Company of San Leandro, California is voluntarily recalling certain powdered beverage mixes because ...

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