Transthoracic echocardiogram has low sensitivity and, if negative, should be followed by TEE to exclude endocarditis. Not all cases of non-HACEK Gram-negative bacterial endocarditis necessarily ...

Endocarditis is the infection and inflammation of an individual's endocardium. The heart chambers have an interior surface covered by a special lining, called the endocardium, containing a layer ...

such as infective endocarditis, septic pulmonary emboli, osteomyelitis and abscesses (Box 1), as a result of hematogenous seeding and, therefore, is an important cause of morbidity and mortality ...