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Infective Endocarditis: A Multidisciplinary Approach provides a comprehensive review of infective endocarditis and covers the entire spectrum of medical care for these challenging patients. It covers the ever-increasing scope of the problem, including epidemiology, as well as diagnostic work-up, microbiology, medical therapy, and surgical therapy for this disease. The book also addresses the opioid epidemic and rising infective endocarditis incidence in this population. Each type of practitioner can use this book as a definitive resource in reviewing aspects of care related to the endocarditis patient. This book will also serve as an updated resource to provide recent evidence regarding the management of these patients, as well as author perspectives and approaches to tackling the often complex and challenging issues revolving around care of the endocarditis patient. This is an essential reference and an authoritative source for infective endocarditis and provide physicians, nurses, social workers, and everyone who is routinely involved in the care of these patients.

Infective endocarditis. --- Endocarditis, Bacterial. --- Bacterial Endocarditides --- Bacterial Endocarditis --- Endocarditides, Bacterial --- Bacterial endocarditis --- Endocarditis, Bacterial --- Infectious endocarditis --- Endocarditis --- Heart --- Infections --- Endocarditis. --- Infective Endocarditis --- Endocarditides --- Endocarditides, Infective --- Endocarditis, Infective --- Infective Endocarditides

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Active infective endocarditis is one of the most serious diseases of the heart. Infection often causes periannular abscess, and may also spread to affect the mitral valve structures. This complication carries a high mortality rate and valve replacement followed by intensive care and antibiotic treatment may be the only option to save patients’ lives. Severe hemodynamic depression caused by bacterial shock, is today no longer a counter-indication, and the second major risk factor, that of postoperative reinfection, has been greatly reduced by using homografts and new valve prostheses that are resistant to bacterial infection. Timely operation, before complex destruction of cardiac structures occurs, achieves a much higher rate of survival. This assessment of the results of surgical treatment of active infective endocarditis was performed at the German Heart Institute Berlin. It focuses on preoperative investigation and proposes a new classification of this endocarditic disease.

Endocarditis, Bacterial -- surgery. --- Endocarditis, Bacterial. --- Infective endocarditis -- Surgery. --- Infective endocarditis. --- Surgery. --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Cardiovascular Diseases --- Infective endocarditis --- Bacterial endocarditis --- Endocarditis, Bacterial --- Infectious endocarditis --- Medicine. --- Cardiology. --- Cardiac surgery. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Cardiac Surgery. --- Endocarditis --- Heart --- Infections --- Cardiac surgery --- Open-heart surgery --- Internal medicine --- Diseases --- Surgery

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Infective endocarditis is a condition that still carries a high morbidity and mortality rate despite modern antibiotics and surgical treatment. The infection, usually caused by bacteria, invades the innermost lining of the heart and can damage heart valves, connective tissue and the heart chambers themselves. Rapid diagnosis, effective treatment, and prompt recognition of complications are essential to good patient outcome. If untreated, mortality is extremely high. Symptoms can be as non-specific as fever, fatigue, weight loss, new rashes (either painful or painless), headaches, backaches, joint pains and confusion; hence the disease remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. This book presents the clinical manifestations – both cardiac and extracardiac, the diagnostic techniques currently used in clinical practice, the range of microorganisms that are responsible and the clinical scenarios that are often associated with initiating bacteremia. The guidelines are presented in detail, while the indications, timing and outcome of cardiac surgical intervention and prognosis are discussed extensively. Consequently this atlas will be of great value to cardiology specialists and trainees, emergency room physicians, intensivists and any frontline care provider to help them better understand the management of patients with infective endocarditis.

Infective endocarditis --- Internal medicine. --- Medicine, Internal --- Bacterial endocarditis --- Endocarditis, Bacterial --- Infectious endocarditis --- Medicine. --- Emergency medicine. --- Cardiology. --- Infectious diseases. --- Cardiac surgery. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Cardiac Surgery. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Medicine --- Endocarditis --- Heart --- Infections --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Surgery. --- Cardiac surgery --- Open-heart surgery --- Emerging infections --- New infectious diseases --- Re-emerging infectious diseases --- Reemerging infectious diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Internal medicine --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Diseases --- Surgery --- Diseases. --- Human beings --- Illness --- Illnesses --- Morbidity --- Sickness --- Sicknesses --- Epidemiology --- Health --- Pathology --- Sick

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This Special Issue is a collection of selected papers from the 3rd European Congress on Imaging Infection and Inflammation (www.nuclearmedicinediscovery.org/events.asp) and results of consensus sessions by major experts in the field including Nuclear Medicine physicians, Radiologists, Clinicians and microbiologists. The Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM) provides an opportunity to publish data that were presented and discussed at the meeting in Rome in December 2019. One of the extremely important missions of this meeting was to present the recently published guidelines on diagnostic imaging of infections, and find a consensus agreement on some still controversial issues. With this in mind, the aim of the present Special Issue is to publish selected papers on: • Overviews on published guidelines • Review on recent development of diagnostic imaging of infections • Consensus document on the use of FDG and WBC in infections • Consensus document on the requirement for new radiopharmaceuticals for imaging bacteria

infection --- vascular graft --- multimodality imaging --- WBC scintigraphy --- FDG-PET/CT --- angio-CT --- personalized medicine --- spondylodiscitis --- spine infection --- MRI --- 18F-FDG PET/CT --- diabetic foot --- diagnosis --- FDG PET/CT --- polymeric nanoparticles --- PLGA --- optical imaging --- tumor targeting --- imaging --- [18F]FDG PET/CT --- fever of unknown origin --- FUO --- PET/CT --- 18F-FDG-PET/CT --- Infective endocarditis --- echocardiography --- computed tomography --- magnetic resonance imaging --- nuclear imaging --- positron emission tomography --- endocarditis team --- cardiac implantable electronic device --- bacteria --- radiopharmaceutical --- molecular imaging --- nuclear medicine --- prosthetic joint infection --- SPECT/CT --- radiology

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This timely new edition provides an up-to-date approach to the diagnosis and management of endocarditis. Each chapter from the previous edition has been updated to deliver a critical analysis on information gathered from the most recent studies on the subject. The current prophylaxis guidelines have been reviewed, along with the new diagnostic approaches in the detection of the disease, the proposed schemas to predict prognosis, and the new treatment strategies to improve the outcome of patients afflicted with this condition. Endocarditis: Diagnosis and Management, Second edition is relevant to all clinicians involved in the care of patients with this serious disease. It is a valuable resource for internists, infectious disease specialists, cardiologists, and cardiac surgeons alike.<.

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