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Original Source: Brucella glomerulonephritis and prosthetic valve endocarditis: a case report.
Although brucellosis is an endemic disease in Mediterranean countries, there are few reported cases of Brucella endocarditis and glomerulonephritis. We report a case of Brucella prosthetic mitral valve endocarditis and glomerulonephritis that could be managed by using only antibiotic therapy, including rifampicin, doxycycline and ceftriaxone, without a surgical procedure.
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Antibiotics to Prevent Infective Endocarditis
Infective endocarditis is an infection inside the chambers of the heart or on the heart valves. Infectious endocarditis may be triggered by a clot forming on the lining of the heart or on one of its v...
Edwards Lifesciences Wins SFDA OK for Heart Valve Replacement
Edwards Lifesciences, a US company that makes artificial heart valves and hemodynamic monitors, has been given SFDA approval for the Carpentier-Edwards PERIMOUNT Mitral Heart Valve, a replacement he...
Early Surgery May Benefit Some With Heart Infection
By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- People with an advanced form of a heart infection called endocarditis may do better if they undergo early surge...
Every year, over 300,000 heart valve replacement operations are performed worldwide. Diseased valves are often replaced with mechanical heart valves (MHVs), which cannot yet be designed to suit each p...
It Is Now Deemed Safe To Give Pre-Dental Antibiotics Only To High Risk Heart Patients
The incidence of infective endocarditis among dental patients in Olmsted County, Minn. did not increase after new guidelines called for giving preventive antibiotics before dental procedures only to t...
Health Canada is advising health care professionals and the public that, based on new information, the blood-thinning drug Pradaxa is not to be used in patients with artificial heart valves (also know...
Tenth Birthday Of Life-saving TAVI Heart Implant - UK Lags Behind Europe In Patient Use
Over the span of a lifetime, the human heart beats more than two billion times. With each beat, flexible valves within the heart's chambers open and shut to prevent blood flowing backwards. With adva...
Heart valves, stents lift Medtronic 2Q net income
Medtronic Inc. said Tuesday its net income rose 5 percent in the fiscal first quarter on better sales of products like drug-coated stents and heart valves, but sales of implantable heart devices fell...
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Brucella glomerulonephritis and prosthetic valve endocarditis: a case report.
Although brucellosis is an endemic disease in Mediterranean countries, there are few reported cases of Brucella endocarditis and glomerulonephritis. We report a case of Brucella prosthetic mitral valv...
The value of 18F-FDG PET/CT in diagnosing infectious endocarditis.
PURPOSE: Early detection of infectious endocarditis is challenging. For diagnosing infectious endocarditis, the revised Duke criteria are the gold standard. Evidence of endocardial involvement on echo...
Brucellosis relapse causing prosthetic valve endocarditis and aortic root infective pseudoaneurysm.
We report a previously treated case of brucellosis and aortic root replacement, which became complicated by prosthetic valve endocarditis and a massive aortic root pseudoaneurysm. Preoperative blood a...
Lactococcus garvieae septicaemia in a patient with artificial heart valves.
Lactococcus garvieae is usually an animal pathogen. Only a few cases of infections in humans have been described. We describe a case of an elderly patient with prosthetic heart valves with a septicaem...
Dentigenous infectious foci - a risk factor of infective endocarditis.
Background: Dentigenous, infectious foci are frequently associated with the development of various diseases. The role of such foci in the evolution of endocarditis still remains unclear. This article...
