A chronic bacterial infection of the valves of the heart. Characterized by a slow, quiet onset with fever, heart murmur, splenomegaly, and development of clumps of abnormal tissue, called vegetations, around an intracardiac prosthesis or on the cusps of a valve in the heart. The infected vegetations may separate from the valve or prosthesis and form emboli. Roth's spots, Osler's nodes, petechiae, and splinter hemorrhages under the fingerneails are common manifestations of blood-borne metastases of these emboli. The common causes of SBE are the various species of Streptococcus or Staphylococcus. Dental procedures are associated with infection by Streptococcus faecalis, and self-infection ( especially by drug users) with Staphylococcus aureus. Before surgery or a dental procedure prophylactic antibiotics are given. Bacteriologic examination of cultures of the blood may allow specific diagnosis and treatment. Bed rest and hospitalization may be necessary for several weeks. If a prosthesis has become infected , it is usually removed. Administration of an antibiotic that is known to be the causitive organism is often the treatment. The fever is treated with antipyretic medication and bed rest during the acute phase of illness.
Inflammation of the endocardium due to bacterial invasion. Also known as subacute bacterial endocarditis.
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Endocarditis is an inflammation of the endocardium (part of the heart), and if it is bacterial, the cause for it is bacteria. The part of the term culture negative, means that they tried to grow the bacteria in the lab after taking a blood sample, and were unable to get it to grow.
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Bacterial endocarditis is infection of the inner lining of the heart caused by bacteria. People with serious valve disease are at greater risk for bacterial endocarditis.
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Beto Carrero died on February 1, 2008, in So Paulo, Brazil of heart failure due to bacterial endocarditis.