Endocarditis involving right-sided valvular structures is largely a disease of intravenous drug
abusers. The majority of these patients respond to antibiotic therapy with clearing of their …

Right-and left-sided endocarditis are two distinct entities, both clinically and experimentally.
As such, they require different clinical approaches. The accurate diagnosis of right-sided …

▪ 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 …

Background Guidelines recommend surgery for left-sided infective endocarditis (LSIE) that is
associated with large vegetations. Given that most patients who undergo surgery also have …

The visualization of vegetations by M-mode echocardiography in patients with infective
endocarditis has been suggested to imply a poor prognosis regarding the development of …

Although initial morphologic features of vegetations have been related to the risk of early
complications, there is little information about the natural history of the vegetations during …

Although 2DE is considered the most sensitive method for detecting vegetations in infective
endocarditis, the independent clinical significance of these vegetations continues to be …

• Thirty-four patients with clinical infectious endocarditis were examined by M-mode and two-
dimensional (2D) echocardiography. Vegetations were identified in 16 patients (47%) by M …

• Thirty-four drug addicts with endocarditis were studied to evaluate the prognostic
significance of vegetation size and its short-term changes, as determined by two …

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