Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis (SBE) is a bacterial infection that produces growths on the endocardium (the cells lining the inside of the heart). Subacute bacterial endocarditis usually (but not always) is caused by a viridans streptococc...
http://www.healthcentral.com/encyclopedia/408/315.html
Patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis present with a more nonspecific flulike illness and symptoms that have lasted more than 2 weeks. Subacute bacterial endocarditis is more common in patients with an underlying congenital heart defect.
emedicine.medscape.com/article/896540-overview
Subacute bacterial endocarditis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Subacute bacterial endocarditis (also called endocarditis lenta ) is a type of endocarditis (more specifically, infective endocarditis). It can be confused with essential mixed cryoglobulinemia. It...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subacute_bacterial_endocarditis
Endocarditis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. It usually involves the heart valves (native or prosthetic valves). Other structures which may be involved include th...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocarditis
Usually a bacterial infection: This may present in two ways: Acute Bacterial Endocarditis, mainly caused by staphylococci, or streptococci, or pneumococci or gonococci. The Subacute (SBE) illness ... Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) has an insidious onset and may have some or all of all of the following symptoms...
www.rxmed.com/b.main/b1.illness/b1.1.illnesses/ENDOCARD... www.rxmed.com/b.main/b1.illness/b1.1.illnesses/ENDOCARDITIS%20(BACTERIAL%20OR%20INFECTIVE).htm
"Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis; And; Antimicrobial Prophylaxis" ... Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) ... Previous bacterial endocarditis...
www.bethesda.med.navy.mil/careers/postgraduate_dental_s... www.bethesda.med.navy.mil/careers/postgraduate_dental_school/comprehensive_dentistry/Pearls/Pearlsa6.htm
bacterial e. — infectious endocarditis, acute or subacute, caused by various bacteria, including streptococci, ... What is Subacute bacterial endocarditis? ... Infective endocarditis (Subacute bacterial endocarditis) · noninfective endocarditis (Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis, Libman-Sacks endocarditis);
www.answers.com/topic/endocarditis www.answers.com/topic/endocarditis
2/94 - © Copyrighted Material Bacterial endocarditis is an infection of the inner surface of the heart or the heart valves caused by bacteria usually found in the mouth, intestinal tract or urinary tract.
www.csun.edu/~hcmth011/chaser/article2.html
OBJECTIVE: To report on several patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis who were initially presumed, incorrectly, to have polymyalgia rheumatica or giant cell arteritis. ... OBJECTIVE: To report on several patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis who were initially presumed, incorrectly,
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/16859595
She was found to have aortic, mitral, and pulmonary valve insufficiency, and the initial diagnosis was subacute bacterial endocarditis. At surgery, we replaced the aortic and mitral valves with mechanical prostheses and the pulmonary valve with a bioprosthesis.
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/11198316