India's first heart failure registry reveals younger patients, high mortality rates, and varying causes of heart failure.

An untreated yeast infection that persists for too long, can lead to complications that require medical attention. These include painful sores, infertility, or even a potentially deadly bloodstream ...

The updated AHA guidelines are reflective of an ongoing evolution in endocarditis prevention ... number of individuals who warrant antibiotic prophylaxis. A re-evaluation of the feasibility ...

Prophylactic measures are crucial to reduce infection-related morbidity and ... meningitis, cellulitis, endocarditis, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, endocarditis, herpes simplex, and ...

Prophylaxis and treatment of infective endocarditis in adults: a concise guide. Clin Med 2004;4:545-50. Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to summarize key changes in ...

Seventy-four of 77 patients with undoubted bacterial endocarditis have had negative ... be removed before treatment is completed, as a prophylaxis against subsequent reinfection of the heart ...

The Association for Dental Safety (ADS), formerly known as the Organization for Safety, Asepsis, and Prevention, will once again host its annual Dental Infection Control Boot Camp. This is a ...

The following is a summary of “Infective endocarditis caused by Gemella – a retrospective registry-based study,” published in the January 2025 issue of Infectious Disease by Popova et al. In the 2023 ...

BACTERAEMIA and infective endocarditis (IE) are significantly more common within six months after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) compared with elective coronary angiography (CAG), ...

Ten days before discharge he received a 9-day course of cephalothin and streptomycin as prophylaxis while ... In this study 4 patients with bacterial endocarditis who were allergic to penicillin ...

CRBSI can lead to further infectious complications, such as infective endocarditis, septic pulmonary emboli, osteomyelitis and abscesses (Box 1), as a result of hematogenous seeding and ...