Endocarditis is a life-threatening disease that involves inflammation of the endocardium, heart valve, and vascular intima. Endocarditis is caused by pathogenic bacteria - around 90% of the cases are ...

Imagine getting your tooth extracted and a bacterial infection develops afterwards that travels down to your heart. Known as infective endocarditis, or bacterial endocarditis, it happens more often ...

Primary care providers are the frontline in the prompt identification of potential blood culture-negative endocarditis cases. The Duke criteria is a popular tool to aid in diagnosis of endocarditis.

Infective endocarditis of the native heart valves was once considered to be a disease caused predominantly by community-acquired bacterial infection. A report by the investigators of the International ...

While nail biting is a recurrent habit with many people, popularly perceived as a sign of nervousness, a US-based doctor has warned it can even be fatal. According to Dr Christabel Akinola, biting ...

Substance use disorder associated with multiple causes of death increased drastically—between 2-fold and 7-fold among the 25–44 age group. Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia showed an acceleration ...

Death rates related to infective endocarditis declined in most adults across the U.S. within the last two decades, yet accelerated among young adults ages 25 to 44 years old, according to new research ...

Substance use disorder may be linked to more deaths from infective endocarditis among people ages 25-44, finds a new study. Death rates related to infective endocarditis declined in most adults across ...