The clinical course, prognostic factors, and management of 50 cases of late prosthetic valve
endocarditis, occurring more than two months after valve replacement, were reviewed …

Clinical and morphologic features are described in 27 patients with prosthetic valve
endocarditis. The interval from valve replacement to onset of symptoms of prosthetic valve …

This report describes seven patients from three university hospitals whose native valve
infective endocarditis was caused by Staphylococcus epidermidis. The literature on …

Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) occurs in 1 to 9.4% of valve recipients. The PVE studies
that were reviewed often lacked comprehensive follow‐up information on operated patients …

prosthetic valve endocarditis Page 1 JournaloftheRoyalSocietyofMedicine Volume80 July1987
457 Figure 2. Renal arteriography, confirming single renal arteries Bilateral unipapillary …

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Infections in Prosthetic Devices Edward]. Young, MD,* and Barrett Sugarman, MD 0f The …

Aspergillus species causing endocarditis on a native heart valve is a rare occurrence with
an exceedingly high mortality. This report describes a 60-year-old man who developed …

In the last few years mycoses have been caused by fungi formerly considered to be
harmless for humans. They cause diseases of plants and insects; some of them are also …

BACKGROUND Two factors changed the clinical course of infective endocarditis (IE)
dramatically: the discovery and evolution of techniques for identifying and treating its …

During 1965 to 1982, 32 episodes of infective endocarditis on prosthetic valves in 30
patients were treated at this hospital. In early endocarditis (presenting within four months of …