Researchers say a host of new risk factors are driving more hospital-acquired heart valve infections and that should compel healthcare providers to re-evaluate their strategies for reducing the threat ...

Danish hospitals logged alarmingly high mid-term mortality rates in infective endocarditis (IE) despite improvements in identifying culprit pathogens in recent years, sending a warning to other ...

The risk of infective endocarditis is low in real-world patients who undergo TAVR, new data from the SwissTAVI registry show. But when infections do occur, the consequences can be devastating, ...

High BMI and poor physical fitness during later adolescence increase the risk of both contracting and dying from sepsis and other severe bacterial infections in adulthood, according to a study from ...

Staphylococcus aureus infection can lead to the development of serious conditions such as endocarditis, pneumonia, and septicemia and requires intensive antibiotic therapy. The emergence of S. aureus ...

Endocarditis is a life-threatening disease that involves inflammation of the endocardium, heart valve, and vascular intima. Endocarditis is caused by pathogenic bacteria - around 90% of the cases are ...