Disease relevance of Endocarditis, Subacute Bacterial

• Is vasculitis in subacute bacterial endocarditis associated with ANCA [1]?
• Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is a facultative gram-negative microorganism which has been implicated as an etiologic agent in localized juvenile periodontitis and in subacute bacterial endocarditis and abscesses [2].
• Erythromycin may be used as prophylactic therapy for subacute bacterial endocarditis and for recurrence of acute rheumatic fever in patients who are allergic to penicillin [3].
• Mitral regurgitation associated with secundum atrial septal defect is described in 4 patients, each with a different mitral lesion: rheumatic valvular disease, congenitally cleft valve, subacute bacterial endocarditis with disruption of the chordae tendineae, and traumatic valve rupture [4].
• IgA immune complexes were likewise found in the sera of patients with systemic lupus (five of 12), rheumatoid arthritis (four of 12), subacute bacterial endocarditis (four of 12) and HB virus hepatitis (four of 16) [5].

High impact information on Endocarditis, Subacute Bacterial

• Light chain heterogeneity of 19S and 7S anti-gamma-globulins in rheumatoid arthritis and subacute bacterial endocarditis [6].
• Oral colonization by Streptococcus gordonii, an important cause of subacute bacterial endocarditis, involves bacterial recognition of sialic acid-containing host receptors [7].
• Circulating tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF), soluble TNF receptors, and interleukin-6 in human subacute bacterial endocarditis [8].
• A 57 year old white man with aortic insufficiency and previously undiagnosed ankylosing spondylitis, who developed subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE), is described [9].
• Abnormal levels of IC were found in 78% of sera from patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 67% with systemic lupus erythematosus, and 87% with subacute bacterial endocarditis [10].

Chemical compound and disease context of Endocarditis, Subacute Bacterial

• Does steroid exposure adversely affect the outcome of subacute bacterial endocarditis? Report of two cases [11].
• SLE was controlled successfully for 10 months using azathioprine monotherapy until signs, subsequently shown to be due to subacute bacterial endocarditis, resulted in the death of the patient [12].
• A case of subacute bacterial endocarditis treated with parentaral clindamycin (clindamycin 2-phosphate) [13].
• A combination of streptomycin, tetracycline and rifampicin with or without steroids was used successfully in neurobrucellosis, septicaemic shock and subacute bacterial endocarditis [14].

Gene context of Endocarditis, Subacute Bacterial

• The presence of cytoplasmic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (C-ANCA) in the course of subacute bacterial endocarditis with glomerular involvement, coincidence or association [15]?
• Subacute bacterial endocarditis: current perspectives. Interview by George M. Rakes, Mark J. Panneton, Curtis G. Kuster, and Wayne A. Labart [16].
• We report a case of subacute bacterial endocarditis with a thrombocytopenic syndrome that at first resembled TTP which was due to an unusual gram-negative rod [17].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Endocarditis, Subacute Bacterial

• When patients with malaria were used as a control group of acute intravascular infection with high circulating TNF values, the ratio between soluble TNF receptors and TNF on admission was significantly greater in the patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis [8].

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