European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidance advises that treatment should last for at least six weeks in patients with prosthetic valves and two to six weeks for native valve endocarditis. The ESC ...

CHF: Congestive heart failure; CI: Contraindication; DM: Diabetes mellitus; ICU: Intensive care unit; IE: Infective endocarditis; iv.: Intravenous; LV: Left ventricle ...

Bacterial endocarditis, or infective endocarditis, is a rare infection of the heart lining and valves. It is caused by a bacterial infection and results in flu-like symptoms. The condition may ...

Endocarditis is the infection and inflammation of an ... The dub sound is produced by the closing of the aortic and pulmonic ...

infective endocarditis (an infection of your heart muscle), a heart attack, heart failure, degeneration of your heart valves over time, or a thoracic aortic aneurysm. You may not have any symptoms ...

Aortic regurgitation occurs when blood leaks back into the left ventricle due to a leaky aortic valve. This is a type of valve disease in the heart. Aortic regurgitation can lead to some heart ...

Another common cause of heart valve disease is endocarditis, an infection of the heart caused by a blood infection ...

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As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

Sandra Lesenfants, senior vice president of Abbott’s Structural Heart business, shares an update on MitraClip, TriClip, and ...

Medical 76% Strong correlation between propensity score and timing of surgery. Individual effect of each variable difficult to measure [22] CHF: Congestive heart failure; CI: Contraindication; DM ...