Consequently, a lack of peripheral manifestations should not dissuade clinicians from consideration of bacterial endocarditis in the above scenario.

In many patients, muscle and joint pain can be the first symptomatic manifestation of endocarditis. These pains can show up months before other symptoms, causing many physicians to overlook ...

Penicillin was discontinued in other patients when the pattern of their illness was favorable as judged by symptoms ... many of the other clinical features of bacterial endocarditis.

Results of preliminary studies suggest that certain cephalosporin C derivatives may be useful in the treatment of bacterial ... endocarditis. Three of the 4 patients obtained bacteriologic and ...

subacute bacterial endocarditis, hypercoagulopathies, uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes with vascular disease, headaches with focal neurologic symptoms). Breast or other estrogen or progestin ...

Ideally, these management issues should be examined in large, well-controlled and randomized prospective clinical trials. However, considering the rarity of non-HACEK Gram-negative endocarditis ...