Despite a recent Facebook post by Associated Pediatrics, Northwest Health – Porter isn’t limiting admissions to its pediatrics unit. “Northwest Health – Porter’s pediatric unit remains ...

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Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2010;8(8):879-885. These examples highlight the importance of host immune defenses in protecting against Gram-negative endocarditis. With a changing demographic ...

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Gram-positive bacteria remain the predominant causative pathogens for bacterial endocarditis, accounting for nearly 80% of cases. ... Diseases & Conditions Pediatric Bacterial Endocarditis; ...

Infective endocarditis (ie, the infection of a native or prosthetic heart valve, the endocardium or implanted cardiac device1) is a clinical chameleon whose epidemiology and natural history are in ...

The prevalence of stroke in patients with endocarditis and cardiomyopathy is 5% to 10%, 135–137 whereas children with congenital heart disease have a 19-fold increased risk of stroke compared with the ...

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Introduction Echocardiography is central to the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis. It is generally accepted that transoesophageal echo (TOE) has a much higher sensitivity for the ...

The taste of an antibiotic is often not taken into account by practitioners, although there is significant evidence to show palatability correlates strongly with adherence. Many parents will be ...