Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) is a devastating disease, and guidelines currently recommend early surgery in patients with PVE and associated complications. However, a study from the ...

How do the 2007 IE prevention guidelines differ from the prior (1997 [11]) iteration? There are three major differences in the current version. The "highest-risk" group for whom antibiotic prophylaxis ...

Infections in surgically implanted heart valves are more common in patients who have been given a biological prosthetic valve than in those with a mechanical one, a study shows. Infections in ...

Infective endocarditis (IE) is by far the most common cardiovascular infection worldwide. Despite the medical and surgical advances, this condition remains associated with considerable mortality and ...

Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) is a rare but potentially lethal complication of heart valve replacement. The current clinical profile of PVE is not well defined. As a consequence, Wang et al.

Echocardiography should be the first tool used to evaluate potential dysfunction of a prosthetic heart valve, but other imaging modalities may be needed to get a clearer picture of the problem and the ...

The first recommendations on multimodality imaging assessment of prosthetic heart valves have been published. Heart valve replacement is performed using mechanical or biological prostheses. It is ...

The risk of infective endocarditis is low in real-world patients who undergo TAVR, new data from the SwissTAVI registry show. But when infections do occur, the consequences can be devastating, ...

Isolated pulmonary-valve endocarditis is quite rare, but it shares demographic, clinical, and microbiologic features with the more-common tricuspid endocarditis. 1 We describe a 35-year-old ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I had mitral valve prolapse for many years. In 2005, I got an infection, and it ended up as endocarditis. My mitral valve was not able to be repaired. I got a porcine valve. I am ...