Infective endocarditis in injection drug users: importance of human immunodeficiency virus serostatus and degree of immunosuppression

JJ Pulvirenti, E Kerns, C Benson… - Clinical infectious …, 1996 - academic.oup.com
… recurrent bacterial infections. We hypothesized that the degree of immunosuppression may
play an important role in outcomes for HIV-seropositive patients with infective endocarditis (IE…

… human immunodeficiency virus 1 infection and degree of immunosuppression in the clinical characteristics and outcome of infective endocarditis in intravenous drug …

E Ribera, JM Miró, E Cortés, A Cruceta… - Archives of internal …, 1998 - jamanetwork.com
… We sought to determine whether HIV infection and the degree of HIV-induced
immunosuppression changed the clinical characteristics and prognosis of IE in this population. …

Infective endocarditis in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection

S Cicalini, G Forcina, FG De Rosa - Journal of Infection, 2001 - Elsevier
… immunodeficiency virus serostatus and degree of immunosuppression. … 1 infection and
degree of immunosuppression in the clinical characteristics and outcome of infective endocarditis

[PDF][PDF] Infective endocarditis in non-HIV immunosuppressed patients

II Begezsán, C Bejan, L Ghibu… - Rev Med Chir Soc …, 2012 - researchgate.net
… -HIV immunosuppressed patients with infective endocarditis, … with infective endocarditis
at the Iasi Infectious Diseases … To these patients we looked for non-HIV immunosuppressed

[HTML][HTML] Immunologic evaluation in infective endocarditis

WCN Forte, AC Mario, A Costa… - Arquivos Brasileiros …, 2001 - SciELO Brasil
… METHODS: We studied 10 patients with infective endocarditis… not using any
immunosuppressant or antibiotic medication. … counts, IgM and IgG serum levels, and C4 …

Mechanisms of infective endocarditis: pathogen–host interaction and risk states

K Werdan, S Dietz, B Loeffler, S Niemann… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a (usually bacterial) infection of the … level of anticardiolipin IgG
antibodies in acute Q fever are strongly correlated with the progression to Q fever endocarditis

Challenges in infective endocarditis

TJ Cahill, LM Baddour, G Habib, B Hoen… - Journal of the american …, 2017 - jacc.org
… (RCT) of antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of infective endocarditis in the context of dental
… ) compared with common, low-level bacteremia in the pathogenesis of IE remained poorly …

Prospective study of infective endocarditis among injection drug users

LE Wilson, DL Thomas, J Astemborski… - … Journal of infectious …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
… this study with advanced HIV immunosuppression was small. … and advanced
immunosuppression among HIV-infected IDUs … In addition, IE risk factors based on HIV RNA level

In-hospital mortality of infective endocarditis: prognostic factors and evolution over an 8-year period

F Delahaye, F Alla, I Béguinot, P Bruneval… - … journal of infectious …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Infective endocarditis (IE) remains severe. Few predictors of prognosis have been identified.
It is not known whether mortality of IE has decreased during recent decades. 559 definite …

[HTML][HTML] Systemic immune-inflammation index predicts mortality in infective endocarditis

HZ Agus, S Kahraman, C Arslan, C Yildirim… - Journal of the Saudi …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… We demonstrated that high SII levels are independently associated with in-hospital mortality…
predictor for patients with infective endocarditis. Keywords: Infective endocarditis, Mortality, …