Over recent decades, US and European groups have released more and more new or updated guidelines for the treatment of infective endocarditis (IE). But within those guidelines, the number of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infective endocarditis is an infection of the endocardial surface of the heart involving at least one heart ...

Revised guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA) that advised against antibiotic prophylaxis in all but patients at highest risk for infective endocarditis were swiftly implemented into ...

ESC Guidelines published today on infective endocarditis boost the role of imaging in diagnosis of this deadly disease. "We emphasise the need for a multimodality imaging approach to diagnosing ...

Recommended antibiotic regimes to treat infective endocarditis vary between guidelines. In a new review of clinical benefits and harms among different antibiotics, no clear evidence was found to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infective endocarditis is increasingly linked to injection drug use. A group of researchers reviewed almost 600 ...

Antibiotic prophylaxis is indicated in patients with certain cardiac conditions who are undergoing bacteremia-producing procedures. However, the American Heart Association (AHA) 2007 guidelines ...

Dental Dose is a twice-monthly video series featuring pharmacologist Tom Viola, RPh. In each episode, Viola shares bite-sized pieces of dental pharmacology news, facts, and myths. Last spring, the ...