Infective Endocarditis: What Is New in the Clinical Research: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiovascular Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2025 | Viewed by 54
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Heraklion, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Interests: clinical microbiology; infectious diseases; endocarditis; mycoses; fungal infections
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the release of the second volume of the Special Issue “Infective Endocarditis: What Is New in the Clinical Research”.
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare disease that still poses significant challenges. Despite significant advances made in medical knowledge and technology that have improved the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in the last few decades, IE is still associated with significant morbidity and mortality, while its epidemiology is changing. Patients are now older in age, and microbiology demographics have changed due to the increase in healthcare-associated infection, leading to the more frequent identification of Gram-negative microorganisms as causes of IE. On the other hand, the increasing rates of antimicrobial resistance have resulted in a more frequent diagnosis of IE caused by microorganisms with few therapeutic options. Finally, the increasing use of immunosuppression in patients with cancer, autoimmune diseases and transplantation has led to an increase in the diagnosis of IE caused by rare pathogens. This Special Issue will focus on the current clinical research on IE, and present the latest data on the changing epidemiology, microbiology, diagnostic methods and treatment of IE, as well as its outcomes.
Dr. Petros Ioannou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- infective endocarditis
- vegetation
- native valve
- prosthetic valve
- aortic valve
- mitral valve
- cardiac device
- bloodstream infection
- bacteremia
