T HE CHANGING NATURAL HISTORY of infective endocarditis and the increasing number
and variety of microbial genera and species involved in its etiology have been commented …

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS: SELECTED ASPECTS OF TREATMENT INTRODUCTION
Despite the availability of many potent antimicrobial drugs t Page 1 BACTERIAL …

Three aspects of our current understanding of the pathogenesis of infective endocarditis are
reviewed: the size of the infected vegetation, host defence mechanisms and conditions …

Knowledge of the factors which predispose to infective endocarditis is necessary to focus
prevention efforts in high-risk patient populations, to increase early diagnostic suspicion and …

I have chosen for the subject of this Croonian lecture in-fective endocarditis in its subacute
or chronic forms and have reverted to the original term rather than bacterial en-docarditis as …

The annual incidence of infective endocarditis is estimated around 30 cases per million
inhabitants in population-based studies performed in western countries. The incidence of …

Numerous reviews have been published relating the experience of various institutions with
different types of infective endocarditis (IE). However, no large scale prospective …

The results of studies performed with animal models of experimental infective endocarditis
have provided valuable information about the pathophysiology, natural history, and …

BOUT thirty-five years ago Libman' and A Blume? and later Libman and Friedberg, 3
suggested the following as diagnostic criteria for subacute bacterial endocarditis:(1) …

OBJECTIVE To evaluate recent changes in the spectrum and clinical presentation of
infective endocarditis and to determine predictors of outcome. DESIGN A retrospective case …