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  2. Infective endocarditis - Wikipedia

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    Infective endocarditis is an infection of the inner surface of the heart (endocardium), ... with new American Heart Association guidelines released in 2007, ...

  3. Endocarditis - Wikipedia

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    Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium.It usually involves the heart valves.Other structures that may be involved include the interventricular septum, the chordae tendineae, the mural endocardium, or the surfaces of intracardiac devices.

  4. Wikipedia : Osmosis/Endocarditis

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    Now people with infective endocarditis almost always have a fever, as well as a new heart murmur, that results from turbulent blood flow past a damaged heart valve. Sometimes those vegetations can detach from the valve, and little clumps of pathogens can float through the bloodstream—called septic emboli.

  5. Dental antibiotic prophylaxis - Wikipedia

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    Infective Endocarditis (IE) is the infection of heart valves. [6] Previous beliefs were held that IE can be induced from dental procedures due to the invasive nature of treatment, therefore antibiotics were widely prescribed before dental treatment to prevent this.

  6. Subacute bacterial endocarditis - Wikipedia

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    Other strains of streptococci can cause subacute endocarditis as well. These include streptococcus intermedius, which can cause acute or subacute infection (about 15% of cases pertaining to infective endocarditis). [7] Enterococci from urinary tract infections and coagulase negative staphylococci can also be causative agents. [5]

  7. Antibiotic prophylaxis - Wikipedia

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    New data demonstrate that third generation cephalosporins are more effective than first and second generation cephalosporins if all perioperative infectious complications are taken into consideration. Dermatologic surgeons commonly use antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent bacterial endocarditis.

  8. Carditis - Wikipedia

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    Endocarditis is the inflammation of the endocardium; Pancarditis, also called perimyoendocarditis, is the inflammation of the entire heart: the pericardium, the myocardium and the endocardium; Reflux carditis refers to a possible outcome of esophageal reflux [citation needed] (also known as GERD), and involves inflammation of the esophagus ...

  9. HACEK organisms - Wikipedia

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    The HACEK organisms are a group of fastidious Gram-negative bacteria that are an unusual cause of infective endocarditis, which is an inflammation of the heart due to bacterial infection. [1] HACEK is an abbreviation of the initials of the genera of this group of bacteria: Haemophilus , Aggregatibacter (previously Actinobacillus ...