Clinical Challenges in Endocarditis—2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiovascular Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2024 | Viewed by 126
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Integrated Surgical and Diagnostic Sciences (DISC), University of Genoa, Genova, Italy
Interests: cardiovascular surgery; infective endocarditis; heart valves pathology; infections after surgery
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue entitled “Clinical Challenges in Endocarditis—2nd Edition”. For more details on the first volume, in which we published four papers, please visit
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/special_issues/Clinical_Endocarditis
Infectious endocarditis (IE) is a fatal and debilitating disease, and has been a growing problem in the last decade. It is estimated that IE affects 3–7.5 people per 100,000 person years, and its incidence is reported to be increasing in some parts of the world. IE more frequently affects men of around 60 years of age, with staphylococcal and enterococcal IE being the most frequent. Oral streptococcal endocarditis is less frequent, and its incidence has not increased since the implementation of the 2009 and 2015 recommendations restricting indications for antibiotic prophylaxis. There has been considerable focus on new methods of early diagnosis, such as PET or CT scans, which are now used in several countries. The prognosis of IE is still unacceptably poor, and more aggressive management of this deadly disease remains necessary. For this Special Issue, we encourage the submission of studies that investigate clinical challenges involving IE.
Dr. Antonio Salsano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cardiovascular surgery
- infective endocarditis
- heart valves pathology
- diagnosis
- management
- therapy
Related Special Issue
- Clinical Challenges in Endocarditis in Journal of Clinical Medicine (4 articles)
