TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 38. Infectious Endocarditis
A1  - Shiber, Joseph R.
A2  - Farcy, David A.
A2  - Chiu, William C.
A2  - Flaxman, Alex
A2  - Marshall, John P.
PY  - 2012
T2  - Critical Care Emergency Medicine
AB  - Endocarditis,  inflammation  of  the  endocardial  surface  of  the  heart,  can  have  numerous  etiologies  including  mechanical  irritation,  neoplastic,  autoimmune,  or  infectious  diseases.1–4  This  chapter  will  focus  on  the  infectious  causes  that  are  typically  bacteria,  mycobacteria,  and  fungi.  Although  the  cardiac  valves  are  most  commonly  involved,  the  mural  endocardium,  septal  defects,  chordae  tendineae,  and  even  intracardiac  medical  equipment  (pacemaker/defibrillator  leads  or  septal  occluder  devices)  can  also  be  sites  of  infection.1–6  Infectious  endocarditis  (IE)  has  an  incidence  of  3.6/100,000  per  year  and  accounts  for  1/1,000  hospital  admissions  in  the  United  States.  There  is  a  2:1  male  to  female  ratio  with  current  overall  in-patient  mortality  between  11%  and  26%,  although  this  figure  may  be  drastically  different  for  the  various  subsets  of  IE  patients.1,3,7  
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PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55814558
ER  -