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 ...