Right-Sided Infective Endocarditis 2020: Challenges and Updates in Diagnosis and Treatment.

ABSTRACT: Compared with the extensive data on left-sided infective endocarditis (IE), there is much less published information on the features and management of right-sided IE. Right-sided IE accounts for 5% to 10% of all IE cases, and compared with left-sided IE, it is more often associated with intravenous drug use, intracardiac devices, and central venous catheters, all of which has become more prevalent over the past 20 years. In this manuscript on right-sided IE we provide an up-to-date overview on the epidemiology, etiology, microbiology, potential locations of infection in the right heart, diagnosis, imaging, common complications, management, and prognosis. We present updated information on the treatment of pacemaker and device infections, infected fibrin sheaths that appear to be an easily m

SUBMITTER: Shmueli H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7792231 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature