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Comparison of outcome in patients with culture-negative versus culture-positive active infective endocarditis.
José Luis Zamorano,Javier Sanz,Raúl Moreno,Carlos Almería,J.L. Rodrigo,Miriam Samedi,D. Herrera,Adalia Aubele,Luis Mataix,Viviana Serra,Luis Sánchez-Harguindey +10 more
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Hensrud DD, Connolly HM, Grogan M, Miller FA, Bailey KR, Jensen MD, Echocardiographic improvement over time after cessation of use of fenfluramine and phentermine.Abstract:
severity of atherosclerotic involvement of the aortic valve and root in familial hypercholesterolaemia. Heart 1998;80:583–590. 7. Boon A, Cheriex E, Lodder J, Dessels F. Cardiac valve calcification: characteristics of patients with calcification of the mitral annulus and aortic valve. Heart 1997;78:472–474. 8. Shively BK, Roldan CA, Gill EA, Najarian T, Barton Loar S. Prevalence and determinants of valvulopathy in patients treated with dexfenfluramine. Circulation 1999;100:2161–2167. 9. Hensrud DD, Connolly HM, Grogan M, Miller FA, Bailey KR, Jensen MD. Echocardiographic improvement over time after cessation of use of fenfluramine and phentermine. Mayo Clin Proc 1999;74:1191–1197.read more
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Prognostic Stratification of Patients with Left-Sided Endocarditis Determined at Admission
José Alberto San Román,Javier López,Isidre Vilacosta,María Luaces,Cristina Sarriá,Ana Revilla,Ricardo Ronderos,Walter Stoermann,Itziar Gómez,Francisco Fernández-Avilés +9 more
TL;DR: The risk of patients with left-sided endocarditis can be accurately stratified with the assessment of variables easily available within 72 hours of admission to the hospital.
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Global and Regional Burden of Infective Endocarditis, 1990–2010 : A Systematic Review of the Literature
Aref A. Bin Abdulhak,Larry M. Baddour,Patricia J. Erwin,Bruno Hoen,Vivian H. Chu,George A. Mensah,Imad M. Tleyjeh +6 more
TL;DR: A systematic review for the GBD 2010 study provided IE epidemiology estimates for many world regions, but highlighted the lack of information about IE in low- and middle-income regions.
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Molecular diagnosis of culture negative infective endocarditis: clinical validation in a group of surgically treated patients
TL;DR: PCR based molecular detection of pathogens in valve samples from surgically treated culture negative infective endocarditis patients is fast, sensitive, and reliable, and may be a promising tool for routine testing of infectiveendocarditis.
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Infective endocarditis: a five-year experience at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan
TL;DR: Patients with infective endocarditis in Pakistan exhibit significant differences compared to their counterparts in the West, including younger age at presentation, incidence of predisposing cardiac conditions, and gender differences reflecting sociocultural bias.
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A comparison of culture-positive and culture-negative health-care-associated pneumonia.
TL;DR: Patients with CNHCAP had lower severity of illness, hospital mortality, and hospital length of stay compared with CP patients, and these data suggest that patients with CN HCAP differ substantially from patients with HCAP with positive microbiologic cultures.
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New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis : Utilization of specific echocardiographic findings. Duke Endocarditis Service
TL;DR: Application of the proposed new criteria increases the number of definite diagnoses and should be useful for more accurate diagnosis and classification of patients with suspected endocarditis and provide better entry criteria for epidemiologic studies and clinical trials.
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Diagnosis and Management of Infective Endocarditis and Its Complications
Arnold S. Bayer,Ann F. Bolger,Kathryn A. Taubert,Walter R. Wilson,James M. Steckelberg,Adolph W. Karchmer,Matthew E. Levison,Henry F. Chambers,Adnan S. Dajani,Michael H. Gewitz,Jane W. Newburger,Michael A. Gerber,Stanford T. Shulman,Thomas J. Pallasch,Tommy W. Gage,Patricia Ferrieri +15 more
TL;DR: The variability in the clinical presentation of IE requires a diagnostic strategy that will be both sensitive for disease detection and specific for its exclusion across all the forms of the disease, and the current literature is reviewed.
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Current Blood Culture Methods and Systems: Clinical Concepts, Technology, and Interpretation of Results
TL;DR: Issues of clinical and technical importance with regard to blood culturing are addressed; these issues include skin antisepsis, the number and timing of blood cultures, the appropriate volume of blood for culture, culture media and additives, length and atmosphere of incubation, and interpretation of positive blood culture results.
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Studies on the Bacteremia of Bacterial Endocarditis
TL;DR: In 206 cases of bacterial endocarditis with positive blood cultures, 95% of 789 blood cultures were positive for the causative microorganisms.
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Infective endocarditis with negative blood cultures: An analysis of 52 cases
Edward L. Pesanti,Ian M. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: The clinical records of 52 patients who were diagnosed clinically as having had infective endocarditis despite negative blood cultures have been reviewed as mentioned in this paper, and they differed at presentation from patients with positive blood cultures in more frequent receipt of antibiotics prior to culture and more frequent signs of major systemic emboli and congestive heart failure.