Infective endocarditis is infection of the endocardial surface, typically heart valves. Diagnosed by Duke criteria. IV antibiotics 4–6 weeks; surgery in 50% of cases.
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What is endocarditis?Endocarditis is sometimes called infective endocarditis. It's a rare but life-threatening inflammation of the lining inside your heart's chambers and valves (the endocardium).Endocarditis is usually caused by germs that get into your bloodstream and travel to your heart. Once they get inside your heart, the germs can attach to the lining or get trapped in the valves. They start to grow, causing…
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Infective endocarditis (IE) is an endocardial lesion caused by bacterial and/or fungal infection that most commonly affects the heart valves and/or the endocardium around implanted intracardiac devices. In general, IE is classified as a ra…
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a bacterial infection of the heart valves, inserted material or surrounding struc-tures and is associated with a high morbidity and mortality. In patients with IE, anemia is considered to result from the unde…
This randomized, multicenter, open-label trial evaluates whether preoperative dental screening improves outcomes in patients undergoing surgical or transcatheter cardiac valve intervention. Participants are randomized 1:1 to preoperative d…
How does health develop after Infective endocarditis (IE)? Can the health of patients with IE be improved by participation in the physical exercise training within cardiac rehabilitation program? Participants will: * Answer digitally surve…
In patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) and pathological valvular FDG uptake on the initial FDG-PET and not referred to valve replacement at the acute phase, the study will assess whether FDG-PET is able to identify those at i…
In Odense University Hospital preoperative dental screening (PDS) protocol for patients treated with surgical valve replacement was changed from mandatory to targeted PDS to from march 2024. The investigators will therefore compare the ris…
The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate that a rifampin-free regimen is non-inferior to the rifampin-containing regimen in terms of all-cause mortality in staphylococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis within 6 months after ran…
Infectious endocarditis (IE) is the localization and proliferation of blood-borne germs in the endocardium. It remains a complicated disease to manage due to its low incidence, diagnostic difficulties, the change in epidemiology in recent…
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