CoNS endocarditis is common and serious, with high mortality but improving prognosis. A major study explores key insights.

India's first heart failure registry reveals younger patients, high mortality rates, and varying causes of heart failure.

In this study, we analyzed the radiological characteristics, functional outcomes and predictors of poor outcome in patients who developed acute stroke following a diagnosis of infective endocarditis.

However, the impact of race on the risk of stroke among infective endocarditis (IE) patients is not well understood ... and ischemic stroke), and acute kidney injury (AKI). Result: After 1:1 ...

Strumia and Raymond 11 reported a case of acute bacterial endocarditis caused by hemolytic coagulase-positive Staphylococcus aureus. The hemoglobin dropped from 10.9 to 6.2 gm. per 100 ml.

Consequently, a lack of peripheral manifestations should not dissuade clinicians from consideration of bacterial endocarditis in the above scenario.

Bacterial immune evasion is the process by which bacteria avoid and antagonize the bacterial host response, which is mediated by the host's immune system.

2010;8(8):879-885. These examples highlight the importance of host immune defenses in protecting against Gram-negative endocarditis. With a changing demographic profile, notably a growing elderly ...

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other ...