Infective Endocarditis Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Imaging, Therapy, an
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Infective Endocarditis
Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Imaging, Therapy, and Prevention
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Infective Endocarditis
Gilbert Habib Editor
Infective Endocarditis Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Imaging, Therapy, and Prevention
Editor Gilbert Habib Cardiology Department Hôpital La Timone Marseille France
ISBN 978-3-319-32430-2 ISBN 978-3-319-32432-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32432-6
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Preface
Infective Endocarditis: A Changing Disease An up-to-date textbook on infective endocarditis is missing and sorely needed. With this book, we hope to have supplied precisely this. Although infective endocarditis is a cardiac disease that has been known to us for a very long time, it also is an ever-changing disease, with completely varying epidemiology, more and more nosocomial cases, more atypical clinical presentations, new microorganisms, new diagnostic techniques, and, finally, a persistent, severe prognosis. During the previous 2 years, three international guidelines have been published (two American, one European) summarizing our knowledge of this disease and presenting clear recommendations about the best ways to diagnose and treat patients with suspected or confirmed endocarditis. Challenges remain, however, mainly: • How to manage infective endocarditis patients who have intracardiac devices and prostheses, which will probably be the most frequent types of patients in the years to come, due to the radical increase in the number of percutaneous procedures. • When and how to implement the new diagnostic techniques: With which patients should they be used? PET/CT is an example of a new technology recently brought on board for diagnosing endocarditis. • When surgery should be considere
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