Infective endocarditis is an infection of the inner surface of the heart, usually the valves. Signs and symptoms may include fever, small areas of bleeding...

are several ways to classify endocarditis. The simplest classification is based on cause: either infective or non-infective, depending on whether a microorganism...

bacterial endocarditis, abbreviated SBE, is a type of endocarditis (more specifically, infective endocarditis). Subacute bacterial endocarditis can be considered...

Like other constituents of the NVS, it can cause bacteremia and infective endocarditis (IE), with significant morbidity and mortality. NVS has less often...

fastidious Gram-negative bacteria that are an unusual cause of infective endocarditis, which is an inflammation of the heart due to bacterial infection...

Libman–Sacks endocarditis. Libman–Sacks endocarditis may result in arterial emboli, valvular insufficiency, and heart failure. Infective endocarditis occurs...

to any particular condition, and can be associated with subacute infective endocarditis, scleroderma, trichinosis, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid...

feet. They are associated with a number of conditions, including infective endocarditis, and are caused by immune complex deposition. Their presence is...

bacteraemia reach the cardiac tissue, infective (or bacterial) endocarditis can develop, with fatal outcomes. Infective endocarditis is an infection of the endothelium...

Geraci, J. E.; Wilson, W. R. (March 1982). "Symposium on infective endocarditis. III. Endocarditis due to gram-negative bacteria. Report of 56 cases". Mayo...