Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Testa M

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• Case Report
  Recurrent Infective Endocarditis in a Drug Addict: A Case Report
  Author(s): Menafra G, Pingitore A, Gurgo A, Magri D, Pagannone E, Testa M and Volpe MMenafra G, Pingitore A, Gurgo A, Magri D, Pagannone E, Testa M and Volpe M
  
  Infective endocarditis is a disease with a high mortality rate; mortality increases with the number of new episodes. Patients with relapsing endocarditis have a higher mortality rate per year (20%) than patients with a single episode (9%); moreover, the episodes of infective endocarditis on the prosthetic valve have a worse prognosis, with a mortality rate of 45% for each episode. In relapsing endocarditis, the following are distinguished: the relapses, characterized by the same germ, less than six months after the previous episode, and the reinfections, which may be caused by a different germ, or by the same germ, more than six months after previous episode. A recent analysis of the risk factors of recurrent bacterial endocarditis showed that the use of intravenous drugs, hemodialysis, immunosuppression and previous episodes of infective endocarditis played a major role, especially i.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7920.10001123

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