Clinical Features, Treatment, and Prognosis of Endocarditis
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 2946
Special Issue Editor
Interests: infective endocarditis; cardiology; hypertension; heart failure; blood pressure; atherosclerosis; atrial fibrillation; cardiomyopathies; electrocardiography
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Infective endocarditis is a life-changing infection. Since it was fully described by Dr. William Osler over a century now, and in spite of advances in antimicrobial therapy and cardiac surgery, the disease continues to be a devastating medical condition. Hospital mortality still exceeds 20% in many tertiary care centers, and delayed morbidity and mortality continue to exist, in spite of soaring cost of medical care. The numbers of patients with endocarditis on medicine and cardiology wards continues to increase.
The reasons for this are:
- A wide variation of the clinical presentation, endocarditis may mimic any clinical presentation from a flu-like illness to renal colic or a brain tumor.
- Increasing frequency and complexity of invasive healthcare procedures and implanted devices.
- Increasing resistance to antimicrobial agents.
- Sloppy infection control procedures.
- Wide spread intravenous drug abuse.
- Aging of the population.
- Lack of early rapid diagnostic facilities in many primary healthcare facilities.
- Increased detection of the disease, particularly since the advent of echocardiography.
- Lack of multi-specialty team approach.
The procedures for diagnosis of endocarditis have also seen many breakthroughs in molecular identification, antibiotic resistance patterns, and imaging techniques.
The scope of this volume is to shed light on the current difficulties in the timely diagnosis of infective endocarditis and its complications, and how making the best use of clinical skills, laboratory testing and imaging techniques can achieve a timely, accurate, and complete diagnosis of infective endocarditis.
Prof. Dr. Hussien Rizk
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- infective endocarditis
- cardiology
- hypertension
- heart failure
- blood pressure
- atherosclerosis
- atrial fibrillation
- cardiomyopathies
- electrocardiography
- echocardiography
- imaging techniques
