Infective endocarditis following valve surgery is a rare but life-threatening infection. In a new doctoral thesis from ...

A workforce on the surgical management of tricuspid endocarditis in patients who inject drugs cautioned against relying on vegetation size and microbiology as criteria for surgery in these patients.

Recently, catheter-based procedures have been developed to repair the tricuspid valve or reduce the leak without open surgery ...

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In cardiology, the admixture of new tools plus an unmet medical need often brings zeal. Indeed, new tools can be a positive; think transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). But new devices can ...

Clinical experience over the past decade suggests that the number of cases of polymicrobial infective endocarditis has greatly increased. We found 101 reports of cases of polymicrobial endocardial ...

A Vermont woman who died last year after her arrest in Massachusetts had a once-rare heart infection that has been on the rise among injection drug users. Madelyn Linsenmeir’s death was felt around ...

Background A 70-year-old man with diabetes mellitus, fever of unknown origin and oliguria was admitted to hospital. Blood cultures were positive for a Staphylococcus aureus infection and antibiotic ...

Venus Medtech's Cardiovalve subsidiary announced today that it completed enrollment in a study of its tricuspid valve ...