Patients who underwent mitral valve replacement, but not repair, had a higher risk for infective endocarditis than those at a moderate risk for the disease, a Danish study shows.

Emergency Aortic Valve Replacement in Active Endocarditis with the Björk-Shiley Tilting Disc Valve Prosthesis, Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 9, 2, (90-93), (2009 ...

Transesophageal echocardiogram of infective endocarditis in a patient with mitral valve prosthesis. A recent cost-effectiveness analysis has advocated the use of TTE only in patients with a ...

Roth Spots and Endocarditis. Moritz Roth, a Swiss physician, first described Roth spots in 1872. An early study in 1878 reported that these white-centered hemorrhages were present in 80% of cases ...

Roth spots are signs of bleeding that might show up during an eye exam. ... Roth spots can be a symptom of endocarditis, but only 2 percent of people with endocarditis have them.

Figure 1. A 56-year-old man presented with severe lumbar pain, a seven-week history of fever (temperature as high as 39°C), a 10-kg weight loss, and a recent history of treatment with cephalosporins.