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Alternate Name(s): Valve infection ... Hospitalization is often required initially to administer intravenous antibiotics. Long-term antibiotic therapy is required to eradicate the bacteria from the heart chambers and valves. Therapy is usually administered for 6 weeks. The chosen ...
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www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001098.htm#Tre...
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How is endocarditis treated? ... It is important to realize that endocarditis may exist without visible vegetations on the heart valve; the exact diagnosis is made by the identification of bacteria in a blood culture, in the appropriate clinical setting.
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www.medicinenet.com/endocarditis/page3.htm
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CASE SUMMARY: A 39-year-old female presented with chest pain and a history of endocarditis 3 years prior to admission. Blood cultures were positive for E. faecium. She was treated initially with daptomycin 6 mg/kg daily, which was later increased to 8 mg/kg daily despite poor gentamicin clearance.
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www.theannals.com/cgi/content/abstract/aph.1M324v1
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In the present study, we report the first case of Listeria monocytogenes endocarditis treated with linezolid in a patient who presented intolerance to ...
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linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0924857906003104
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Treatment of endocarditis requires intensive antimicrobial therapy, sometimes for 2, but often for 4 to 6 weeks. For some patients, surgery is required to remove the infected tissue from the heart, to correct preexisting heart disease, or t...
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A 44-year-old man developed endocarditis due to Curvularia lunata on a Carpentier-Edwards porcine heterograft with clinical involvement of the ring of the aortic valve and the aortic root. Because curative surgery was considered to be extremely high risk, he was treated with antifungal drugs for nearly 7 years.
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/8448316
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CONCLUSIONS: Native and prosthetic valve endocarditis can be treated successfully with aggressive surgical debridement and implantation of mechanical or stented bioprosthetic devices with a low risk of recurrent endocarditis.
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/11216726
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The American Heart Association recently revised its guidelines for the prevention of bacterial endocarditis. ... Patients who are allergic to penicillin should be treated with one of the alternative oral regimens: clindamycin (Cleocin), the first-generation cephalosporins cefadroxil (Duricef) or cephalexin (Biocef, Keflex),
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Experimental Group B Streptococcal Endocarditis Treated with Penicillin G versus Ceftizoxime; In vitro - in vivo Disparity; Arnold S. Bayer, Joan O. Morrison, Kwang Sik Kim; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, Calif.;
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