Compared with the extensive data on left‐sided infective endocarditis (IE), there is much
less published information on the features and management of right‐sided IE. Right‐sided …

The clinical features of this complex infection have changed in the past several decades. It is
now an infection of older people, and mitral-valve prolapse is the most common …

Background Endocarditis related to pacemaker (PM)-lead infection is a rare but serious
complication of permanent transvenous pacing. To determine in which situations the …

If William Osler were alive today he would no doubt remark on the fundamental change in
the nature of the disease that he originally described. Staphylococcal endocarditis in …

▪ Objective: To describe the clinical, laboratory, and echocardiographic findings in a large
group of patients with right-sided endocarditis and to determine whether any of these …

To enhance the echocardiographic identification of high risk lesions in patients with
infectious endocarditis, the medical records and two-dimensional echocardiograms of 204 …

Importance Infective endocarditis is a life-threating condition with annual mortality of as
much as 40% and is associated with embolic events in as many as 80% of cases. These …

TVE is mainly a disease of intravenous drug abusers. Although the infecting organisms are
often highly virulent, they frequently respond to medical treatment. The prognosis for patients …

Objectives: We describe the feasibility, safety, and clinical outcomes of percutaneous lead
extraction in patients at a tertiary care center who had intracardiac vegetations identified by …

Study Objective: To determine the efficacy of short-course combination regimens for
selected cases of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis in intravenous drug abusers. Design …