It WAS about 100 yr ago that bacteria were identified as the cause of infective endocarditis.
Subsequently, there was a long period of clinical observation, during which time the natural …

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Medicine. He received his MD degree at Harvard University and interned in Medicine at …

THE PATHOGENESIS OF BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS NASMUCH as bacterial
endocarditis is the cause of death in a large number of patients Page 1 THE …

During the preantibiotic era, recovery from serious bacterial infections was not uncommon.
That patients survived these infections is testimony to the major role played by host defense …

Infective endocarditis is a serious heart disease which is sometimes very difficult to diagnose
and treat despite the progress made over the last few decades. The complex nature of the …

Infective endocarditis in the preantibiotic era was generally a fatal disease and therefore the
morphologic features were well recognized by the pathologists. However, with the …

Three hundred episodes of infective endocarditis (IE) in 287 patients were studied from
October 1978 to August 1986. The patients were in the age range of 0.2–78 (mean …

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Experimental models of infective endocarditis antedate Garrison and Freedman's work in
1970. The hypothesis of the role of parasites (microorganisms) microscopically observed in …

The clinical, microbiologic, and therapeutic features of infective endocarditis have
undergone dramatic change during tre past three decades. The patient with" classic" …