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.

Introduction: Neurological complications in patients with infective endocarditis (IE), such as ischemic and hemorrhagic ... Articles evaluating risk of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and/or intracranial ...

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 ...

Recalcitrant infections are often caused by dormant bacteria, including persisters and viable but nonculturable cells. Here, the authors explore how composition and structure of protein ...

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

The vaginal flora is the bacteria that live inside the vagina. The normal vaginal flora is dominated by various lactobacillus species. Lactobacilli help to keep the vagina healthy by producing lactic ...

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 ...

CKD staging: GFR categories. Kidney damage for ≥3 months. ACR categories. ACR=albumin-to-creatinine ratio. AKD=acute kidney disease. AKI=acute kidney injury. CKD=chronic kidney disease. eGFR=estimated ...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common, heterogeneous, multifactorial condition, which is part of the overarching syndrome of acute kidney diseases and disorders. This condition’s incidence highest in ...

The cause of death was acute coronary occlusion ... Seventy-four of 77 patients with undoubted bacterial endocarditis have had negative beta-hemolytic streptococcus skin tests, and all 77 have ...