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 ...

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 ...

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 ...