Endocarditis prophylaxis.(THE EFFECTIVE PHYSICIAN)(Clinical report)

Internal Medicine News | July 1, 2007| | Copyright

The American Heart Association has issued guidance for the prevention of endocarditis for more than 50 years, and recently issued its first update in a decade. The new guidelines markedly reduce the number of patients who should receive prophylactic antibiotics.

Background

Standards for the prevention of endocarditis have been based on expert opinion because the clinical evidence consists mostly of case-control or descriptive studies.

Endocarditis results from the interaction of microorganisms with the platelet-rich matrix associated with cellular ...

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