Infective endocarditis

Una febbre che… soffia

Borraccetti N, Iacono A, Falcioni A, Nuzzo AC, Currò F, Troisi A, Mambelli L, Prandstraller D, Marchetti F

2021/1 — pag. 31-36 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 7-year-old child with a ventricular septal defect and a story of 10 weeks of non-periodic recurrent fever repeatedly treated with short course of antimicrobial therapy. All the echocardiographies were negative for va...

Sembrava una banale sinusite e invece…

M. Tubaro, M. Starc

2015/3

Lupus in fabula

S. Venezia, M. Corradi, S. Osmi, C. Greco, N. Carano

2013/5

La profilassi dell’endocardite infettiva: punto e a capo

B. D’Agata, E. Berton, F. Fusco, A. Benettoni, F. Marchetti

2011/7 — pag. 444-447

Guidelines for the prevention of bacterial endocarditis have been recently revised by American Heart Association and European Society of Cardiology. By now, in contrast to previous indications, prophylaxis is recommended only for high risk patients...

L’adolescente e il giovane adulto con cardiopatia congenita

A. Benettoni, J. Somerville

2003/4 — pag. 243-249

The article addresses the needs and problems of grown-up congenital heart (GUCH) patients. The size of GUCH population is uncertain, but since 80-85% of patients born with congenital heart disease (CHD) now survive to adulthood (age 16 years), an a...