Sentences with phrase «infective endocarditis»

Doctors across the country are increasingly worried about the rise of bacterial infections attacking the heart valves of IV drug users — a condition known as infective endocarditis.

Compared to patients with atrial septal defect, a heart defect that usually has a low risk for infective endocarditis, the researchers found the risk was substantially higher in:

Using a large Canadian database, researchers looked at the occurrence of infective endocarditis between 1988 and 2010 in 47,518 children with heart defects.

«Clinicians treating children with heart defects can help educate parents regarding infective endocarditis and its prevention, particularly in the highest risk groups identified in this study,» said Dinela Rushani, co-author of the study from the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University.

«Consistent with the current American Heart Association guidelines, we found that children with lesions associated with cyanosis at birth and those who had undergone cardiac surgery in the previous six months were at significantly elevated risk of developing infective endocarditis.

This systematic review and meta - analysis evaluates the association of vegetation size greater than 10 mm with emobolic events in patients with infective endocarditis.

Bacterial endocarditis, also known as infective endocarditis (IE) is a bacterial infection that first affects the bloodstream but will later ultimately settle into the heart lining, the heart valves, or within a blood vessel.

Antibiotics should not be given routinely for dental and other procedures in those at risk for infective endocarditis, a once standard practice.