Diagnostic methods: Current best practices and guidelines for histologic evaluation in infective endocarditis

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 339-361

  Lepidi, Hubert ^a   Durack, David T ^b,c   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BD Technologies   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CYTOCHEMISTRY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARD; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; HUMANS;

EID: 0036080315     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5520(02)00005-3     Document Type: Review

References (76)

1. Infective endocarditis: Review of 135 cases over 9 years
2. Infective endocarditis at a large community teaching hospital, 1980-1990. A review of 210 episodes
3. Nonculture laboratory methods for the diagnosis of infectious endocarditis
4. Culture negative endocarditis
5. Infective endocarditis due to unusual or fastidious microorganisms
6. Infective endocarditis in patients with negative blood cultures: Analysis of 88 cases from a one-year nation-wide survey in France
7. Endocarditis due to rare and fastidious bacteria
8. Acute infective endocarditis. Diagnostic and therapeutic approach
9. Cultivation of the bacillus of Whipple's disease
10. Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkoffii as an agent of a febrile blood-culture negative endocarditis in a human
11. New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis: Utilization of specific echocardiographic findings
12. Infective endocarditis: An analysis based on strict case definitions
13. Fibrous tissue overgrowth and prosthetic valve endocarditis: Report of a case
14. Fibrous tissue ring: An uncommon cause of severe prosthetic valve stenosis
15. Quantitative analysis of valvular lesions during Bartonella endocarditis
16. Multiparametric study (SAMBA 200) of estrogen receptor immunocytochemical assay in 400 human breast carcinomas: Analysis of estrogen receptor distribution heterogeneity in tissues and correlations with dextran coated charcoal assays and morphological data
17. Constitutive production of interleukin-6 and immunologic features in cardiac myxomas
18. Primary cardiac valve tumors
19. Papillary fibroelastoma of the mitral valve: A rare cause of transient neurological defects
20. Rheumatoid heart disease: A clinical and morphologic analysis of 34 autopsy patients
21. Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis
22. Age-related changes in normal human hearts during the first 10 decades of life. Part II (maturity): A quantitative anatomic study of 765 specimens from subjects 20 to 99 years old
23. Surgical pathology of removed natural and prosthetic heart valves
24. A hitherto underdescribed form of valvular and mural endocarditis
25. Association of lupus anticoagulant with severe valvular heart disease in systemic lupus erythematosus
26. Findings at necropsy in the heart of a patient with anticardiolipid syndrome
27. Association of antibodies against phospholipids with heart valve disease in systemic lupus erythematosus
28. Systemic lupus erythematosus valve disease by transesophageal echocardiography and the role of antiphospholipid antibodies
29. Heart valve involvement (Libman-Sacks endocarditis) in the antiphospholipid syndrome
30. Cardiovascular involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus
31. Fungal endocarditis
32. Fungal endocarditis: Evidence in the world literature, 1965-1995
33. Q fever
34. Pathoanatomic, pathophysiologic and clinical correlations in endocarditis
35. Valve ring abscess in inactive infective endocarditis: Frequency, location and clues to clinical diagnosis from the study of 95 necropsy patients
36. Prosthetic valve endocarditis: Comparaison of heterograft tissue valves and mechanical valves
37. An analysis of autopsy findings in 108 patients who died after valve replacement
38. Q fever
39. Description of Tropheryma whipplei gen. nov. sp. nov., the Whipple's disease bacillus
40. Bartonella (Rochalimaea) quintana endocarditis in three homeless men
41. Modification of the diagnostic criteria proposed by the Duke Endocarditis Service to permit improved diagnosis of Q fever endocarditis
42. Diagnosis of 22 new cases of Bartonella endocarditis
43. Q fever endocarditis
44. Polymerase chain reaction analysis for diagnosis of Tropheryma whippelii infective endocarditis in two patients with no previous evidence of Whipple's disease
45. Whipple endocarditis without overt gastrointestinal disease: Report of four cases
46. Whipple disease: Clinical review of 52 cases
47. Immunohistologic demonstration of Coxiella burnetii in the valves of patients with Q fever endocarditis
48. Q fever endocarditis and other forms of chronic fever
49. Whipple's disease presenting as aortic insufficiency
50. Aortic valve endocarditis with Whipple disease
51. Cardiac involvement in Whipple's disease
52. Mitral stenosis in Whipple's disease
53. Endocarditis caused by Rochalimaea henselae
54. Bartonella henselae endocarditis in an immunocompetent adult
55. Bartonella (Rochalimaea) species as a cause of apparent "culture-negative" endocarditis
56. Risk factors and prevention of Q fever endocarditis
57. Negative blood cultures in infective endocarditis: A review
58. Infective endocarditis with negative blood cultures. An analysis of 52 cases
59. The role of the microbiology laboratory in the diagnosis and antimicrobial treatment of infective endocarditis
60. Detection of infection or infectious agents by use of cytologic and histologic stains
61. Treated bacterial endocarditis as a histological mimic of fungal infection
62. Isolation of 16 strains of Coxiella burnetii from patients by using a sensitive centrifugation cell culture and establishment of strains in HEL cells
63. Bacillary angiomatosis in immunocompromised patients
64. Culture and immunological detection of Tropheryma whippelii from the duodenum of a patient with Whipple's disease
65. Tropheryma whippelii endocarditis confirmed by polymerase chain reaction
66. Diagnosis and monitoring of Whipple disease by polymerase chain reaction
67. Detection of Coxiella burnetii by DNA amplification using polymerase chain reaction
68. The 16S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer region of Bartonella (Rochalimaea) species is longer than usualy described in other bacteria
69. Species identification of Chlamydia isolates by analyzing restriction fragment length polymorphism of the 16S-23S rRNA spacer region
70. Strategy for optimizing DNA amplification in a peripheral blood PCR assay used for diagnosis of human brucellosis
71. Comparison of sample preparation methods for detection of Legionella pneumophila in culture-positive bronchoalveolar lavage fluids by PCR
72. Microbiological diagnosis of tuberculosis: A comparison of old and new methods
73. Comparison of PCR, culture, and serological tests for diagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae respiratory tract infection in children
74. Molecular diagnosis of bacterial endocarditis by broad-range PCR amplification and direct sequencing
75. Molecular identification of Gemella species from three patients with endocarditis
76. Clinical utility of cardiac valve gram stain and culture in patients undergoing native valve replacement