Abstract

Some details of 544 episodes of infective endocarditis occurring in 541 patients during 1981
and 1982 are reported. The mean age of patients was 51.6 years and there was a greater …

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

Sixty-eight acceptable cases of bacterial endocarditis were obtained from hospital records
for the 20-year period 1945 to 1964 inclusive. Cases were classified according to age …

Infective endocarditis remains an uncommon disease thus any individual doctor's
experience of it must of necessity be limited. Such patients are always" interesting" and …

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Introduction Infective endocarditis is a common cardiac condition, with significant mortality.
Blood culture-negative endocarditis is an important subgroup of endocarditis that holds …

The most important example of intravascular infection is infective endocarditis (IE), a
common and serious disorder in man. In the past, these infections were uniformly fatal, but …

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 …

It usually occurs at the site of a predisposing heart lesion or congenital defect where the
velocity of blood passing through it is such as to cause turbulence, resulting indamage to the …