Anemia and transfusion of red blood cells are common in patients undergoing valve surgery for infective endocarditis, and ...

A new study published in the BMJ Heart showed that in infective endocarditis (IE) surgery, anemia and transfusion are quite ...

Strategies for surgery to treat left-sided infective endocarditis (IE) differ between the US and Europe, in large part because the evidence base is limited, according to a new review that compares ...

A workforce on the surgical management of tricuspid endocarditis in patients who inject drugs cautioned against relying on vegetation size and microbiology as criteria for surgery in these patients.

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare but often deadly complication for patients whose aortic stenosis is treated with a transcatheter heart valve or with surgery, according to a new analysis of ...

A "staggering increase" in the occurrence of drug use–associated infective endocarditis appears to be a consequence of the current opioid epidemic, a new study suggests. "Our results show that ...

(RTTNews) - CytoSorbents Corp. (CTSO), which provides the treatment of life-threatening conditions in intensive care and cardiac surgery using CytoSorb blood purification, made additional comments on ...

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 ...

A new modeling study suggests that when patients who inject opioids continue an antibiotic treatment for infective endocarditis outside of the hospital, they experienced better long-term health ...