Antimicrobial Therapy on Infectious Endocarditis, 2nd Volume
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiotic Therapy in Infectious Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 151
Special Issue Editor
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; difficult to treat infection; endocarditis; antimicrobial stewardship; infection of the central nervous system
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We have published one successful Special Issue, titled “Infectious Endocarditis: Diagnosis and Antimicrobial Therapy”. This result encouraged us to open a second volume on this topic.
To recapture our rationale in the previous volume, infective endocarditis (IE) is still an infection with severe morbidity and mortality despite medical, surgical and therapeutic progress. IE affects the endocardial surfaces of the heart, usually of one or more cardiac valves, and, to a lesser degree the mural endocardium and septal defects. IE may lead to severe valvular insufficiency, intractable congestive heart failure, and myocardial abscesses. IE may produce a wide range of signs and symptoms, including infected and sterile emboli and a variety of immunological pathways. If its diagnosis is unduly delayed or treatment is inadequate, IE is inevitably fatal.
For this Special Issue, we invite you to contribute original research articles, case reports, and review papers addressing infective endocarditis' epidemiology, antibiotic prophylaxis and its effects; its clinical aspects; the diagnosis of drug-resistant pathogens; antimicrobial therapy; and surgical treatment.
You are welcome to read the papers published in the first edition of Special Issue, titled “Infectious Endocarditis: Diagnosis and Antimicrobial Therapy”.
Dr. Carlo Pallotto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- infective endocarditis (IE)
- epidemiology
- diagnosis
- antibiotic
- antimicrobial therapy
- surgery
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