(1) The four patients treated in our series recovered fully; the single fatal case constituted an unrecognized case of pneumococcal endocarditis.
(2) The efficacies of pefloxacin, fosfomycin, and both of these agents in combination against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus were assessed in a rat endocarditis model.
(3) We studied the arterial blood gas determinations done on the first hospital day in 14 narcotic addicts with bacterial endocarditis (group 1) and six addicts with other medical complications of narcotic addiction (group 2).
(4) A case of tricuspid valve endocarditis with spinal epidural abscess caused by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is reported in a 74-year-old male with an endocardial pacemaker.
(5) There have been 34 reported cases of endocarditis treated with clindamycin.
(6) Seventeen different bacteria were used in the adherence tests; ten strains of alpha-hemolytic streptococci, five from children with infective endocarditis (IE) and five from healthy carriers, two S. aureus, two N. meningitidis, two N. gonorrhoeae and one E. coli.
(7) Two cases of intracranial bacterial aneurysms caused by bacterial endocarditis are reported.
(8) Three patients recovered from their operations, and the other two, both with endocarditis, died postoperatively from causes unrelated to splenic abscess and splenectomy.
(9) The first case of Thermomyces lanuginosus endocarditis occurring on a porcine heterograft prosthesis, secondary to a Staphylococcus aureus infection of the aortic valve, is reported.
(10) The authors report a case of primary aspergillus endocarditis with endophthalmitis and vertebral osteomyelitis.
(11) Seemingly unrelated conditions, such as atherosclerosis, bacterial endocarditis, and trauma, can all produce similar radiographic appearance of aneurysmal dilatation within the kidney, albeit through differing mechanisms.
(12) A case is reported of spontaneously ruptured spleen occurring as a fatal complication of Group B streptococcal endocarditis, despite control of infection with antibiotics and early surgery.
(13) Abscesses were more frequent in aortic-valve endocarditis than in infections of other valves, and the infecting organism was more often staphylococcus (52.3 percent of cases) in patients with abscesses than in those without abscesses (16.2 percent).
(14) After injection of 10(7) S. sanguis, 12 of 17 animals developed endocarditis.
(15) In E faecium endocarditis there was a pronounced IgG response to an E faecium band of 82-90 Kd.
(16) It should be considered as a causative agent in culture-negative cases of endocarditis and also when a gram-negative rod is isolated which is sensitive to all antibiotics.
(17) A case of Pseudomonas endocarditis cured with carbenicillin and polymyxin B is described.
(18) A regimen of a single intramuscular dose of penicillin G-streptomycin was compared with regimens of three oral doses of amoxicillin and two oral doses of penicillin V to prevent Streptococcus sanguis endocarditis in rabbits with experimentally induced valvular heart lesions.
(19) Clinical features, including the presence of a primary site of infection or a continuous pattern of bacteremia, were not sufficient for differentiating endocarditis or complicated bacteremia from uncomplicated bacteremia.
(20) We suggest that patients with proven group G streptococcal endocarditis should be treated with large doses of benzyl penicillin and with an aminoglycoside for not less than 4 weeks.
Endocardium
Definition:
(n.) The membrane lining the cavities of the heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) MAPs were obtained from the right and left ventricular endocardium in six patients with congenital long QT syndrome (LQT group, 18 recording sites) and in eight control patients (control group, 19 recording sites).
(2) Endocardial fibroelastosis is characterized by a porcelain-like thickening of the endocardium, resulting in a marked increase in echodensity of the endocardium, as well as ventricular dilatation and aortic atresia.
(3) It is inferred, therefore, that the right perimyocardium and left ventricular wall are more susceptible to CB3 infection than right ventricular wall or left peri- and endocardium.
(4) During heart development in the chick some of the endocardial cells that cover the cushion areas leave the cushion endocardium, seed the underlying cardiac jelly, and are transformed into mesenchyme.
(5) Thus, the following criteria for the diagnosis of a VSD by color-Doppler-echocardiography were derived depending on the interventricular pressure gradient: 1) Interventricular pressure gradient greater than 15 mm Hg: visualization of the VSD-jet including its origin at the septal endocardium.
(6) These myxomas were generally attached to endocardium in the area of the oval foramen.
(7) Clear cells ("Hurler" cells) were identified within the myocardium and endocardium of both infants.
(8) Metabolic perturbations in the endocardium produced by cardiotoxic doses of isoprenaline were prevented or reduced by propranolol pretreatment.
(9) Macroscopic lesions were not seen with the exception of a small calcified plaque in the endocardium of one animal.
(10) The right ventricle was hypoplastic and its endocardium was diffusely thickened.
(11) The greater vulnerability of the endocardium to low-flow injury in shock was confirmed by the presence of hypercontraction lesions and necrosis in the papillary muscle and endocardial regions, but not in the epicardial region.
(12) In addition LV-EF, end-diastolic (EDV) and end-systolic volumes (ESV) were calculated by manual definition of endocardium in the original (Na) and contrast-echocardiograms (Ko).
(13) Fibrinolytic activity was reduced by 54% in the endocardium of the ischaemic reperfused myocardium and the 125I fibrinogen activity was elevated by 480%.
(14) This study was designed to determine whether measurement of integrated backscatter could be used detect the progressive transmural shift of myofiber alignment that occurs from epicardium to endocardium in human ventricular wall segments.
(15) We conclude that percutaneous fiberscopic imaging with a guiding balloon catheter is feasible and safe, and yields highly detailed images of the endocardium.
(16) Next the model was used to study propagated excitation in a three-dimensional region representing the anisotropic properties of the ventricular wall, with attention to the effects produced by variable fiber direction from "endocardium" to "epicardium."
(17) The authors report a case of primary malignant meningioma of meninges in the right frontal area with metastases to meninges in the right temporal area and left atrial endocardium and with emboli composed of malignant cells in the vessels of the myocardium, spleen, liver, lungs and pancreas in a 49-year-old woman after commissurotomy performed for rheumatic valvular heart disease.
(18) Exposure of the preparation to simulated "ischemia" (hypoxia, acidosis, glucose deprivation and hyperkalemia) resulted in several electrophysiological derangements, including a marked depolarization of the maximum diastolic potential (MDP) in both endocardium and epicardium, shortening of the action potential duration (APD), and prolongation of the transmural conduction time followed by transmural conduction block.
(19) The transmural distribution pattern of the microspheres (endocardium-epicardium ratios) reveals that rigor mortis is a factor that should be taken into account.
(20) In order to reduce the hazards of the septal puncture, an electrocardiographic mapping of the right atrial endocardium was performed using the Brockenbrough needle as an exploratory electrode in a group of 20 patients.