Nosocomial infective endocarditis: Should the definition be extended to 6months after discharge

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 970-973

  Peetermans, Willy E ^a   Hill, E E ^a   Herijgers, P ^a   Claus, P ^a   Herregods, M C ^a   Verhaegen, J ^a   Vanderschueren, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Community acquired; Definition; Infective endocarditis; Nosocomial

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 52649114256     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02057.x     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Mouly S, Ruimy R, Launay O et al. The changing clinical aspects of infective endocarditis: Descriptive review of 90 episodes in a French teaching hospital and risk factors for death. J Infect 2002; 45: 246-256.
2. Fowler VG, Jr, Miro JM, Hoen B et al. Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis: A consequence of medical progress. JAMA 2005; 293: 3012-3021.
3. Ben Ami R, Giladi M, Carmeli Y, Orni-Wasserlauf R, Siegman-Igra Y. Hospital-acquired infective endocarditis: Should the definition be broadened? Clin Infect Dis 2004; 38: 843-850.
4. Hill EE, Herijgers P, Claus P, Vanderschueren S, Herregods MC, Peetermans WE. Infective endocarditis: Changing epidemiology and predictors of 6-month mortality: A prospective cohort study. Eur Heart J 2007; 28: 196-203.
5. Martin-Davila P, Fortun J, Navas E et al. Nosocomial endocarditis in a tertiary hospital: An increasing trend in native valve cases. Chest 2005; 128: 772-779.
6. Li JS, Sexton DJ, Mick N et al. Proposed modifications to the Duke criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Clin Infect Dis 2000; 30: 633-638.
7. Horstkotte D, Follath F, Gutschik E et al. Guidelines on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infective endocarditis.-.executive summary. Eur Heart J 2004; 25: 267-276.
8. Wilson WR, Karchmer AW, Dajani AS et al. Antibiotic treatment of adults with infective endocarditis due to streptococci, enterococci, staphylococci, and HACEK micro-organisms. American Heart Association. JAMA 1995; 274: 1706-1713.
9. Baddour LM, Wilson WR, Bayer AS et al. Infective endocarditis: diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, and management of complications: A statement for healthcare professionals from the committee on rheumatic fever, endocarditis, and kawasaki disease, council on cardiovascular disease in the young, and the councils on clinical cardiology, stroke, and cardiovascular surgery and anesthesia, American Heart Association.-.executive summary
10. Moon MR, Stinson EB, Miller DC. Surgical treatment of endocarditis. Prog Cardiovasc Dis 1997; 40: 239-264.