Endocarditis - Diagnosis and Management

This new addition will provide an update on the current prophylaxis guidelines, the new diagnostic approach in the detection of the disease, the proposed schemas to predict prognosis, and the new treatment strategies to improve the outcome of patients afflicted with this serious condition.  
Endocarditis is a serious disease with ahigh rate of morbidity and mortality. The in-hospital mortality remains at 10-20%. The poor outcome ofpatients with this condition is due in large part to the delay in making thediagnosis which frequently can be elusive. As a result of its wide spectrum of manifestations, endocarditis canmimic many different conditions ranging from stroke to renal failure.  In order to minimize the delay in diagnosis,clinicians need to always be mindful of the possibility that endocarditis maybe the cause of the symptoms. There have been ongoing efforts in thedevelopment of molecular probes and new imaging techniques to improve ourability to identify the disease early and reliably.  New treatment strategies have been studiedwith the aim to prevent complications and to improve survival.
Thestructure of the previous edition is preserved. The book is divided into three sections with the first section coveringthe historical perspective and basic principles, the second section dealingwith the diagnosis and management approaches and the last section on specificclinical situations that pose management dilemmas.  All the chapters will be updated to include newinformation from the recent studies.  Inparticular, the approach to the use of antibiotic prophylaxis will beextensively revised to present and discuss the implications of the currentguidelines from different national societies including the American HeartAssociation and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

This update is timely and should be ofinterest to all clinicians involved in the care of patients with this seriousdisease. This new edition will be a good resource forinternists, infectious disease specialists, cardiologists and cardiac surgeonsalike .
 

List of contents

Perspectives on the History of Endocarditis.- Pathologic Findings: Valvular Destruction, Perivalvular Abnormalities and Extracardiac Findings.- Changing populations: the elderly, injection drug users, health-care associated endocarditis and immunocompromised patients.- Microbiology of Infective Endocarditis and Microbiologic Diagnosis.- Prophylaxis of Endocarditis.- Diagonstic Approach to Endocarditis.- Role of Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Management of Endocarditis.- Surgical Management:  Indications, Timing and Surgical Techniques.- Treatment of Endocarditis.- Blood Culture Negative Endocarditis.- Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis & Cardiovascular Device Related Infections.- Pediatric Infective Endocarditis and Congenital Heart Disease.- Systemic Embolism in Endocarditis: Incidence, Risk Factors, Clinical.- Significance, and Treatment Strategies.- Neurological Complications of Endocarditis: Pathophysiologic.- Mechanisms and Management Issues

About the author

Dr. Kwan Chan is a cardiologist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He earned a BSc, MSc and his medical degree from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Dr. Chan was certified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Internal Medicine (1983) and Cardiology (1984). He is currently the Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory. His research interests include valvular heart disease, infective endocarditis and aortic diseases. He has a special interest in the application of ultrasound in the study of cardiac structure and function and has been actively involved in CME in this area.

Summary

This new addition will provide an update on the current prophylaxis guidelines, the new diagnostic approach in the detection of the disease, the proposed schemas to predict prognosis, and the new treatment strategies to improve the outcome of patients afflicted with this serious condition.  
Endocarditis is a serious disease with a
high rate of morbidity and mortality. 
The in-hospital mortality remains at 10-20%. The poor outcome of
patients with this condition is due in large part to the delay in making the
diagnosis which frequently can be elusive. 
As a result of its wide spectrum of manifestations, endocarditis can
mimic many different conditions ranging from stroke to renal failure.  In order to minimize the delay in diagnosis,
clinicians need to always be mindful of the possibility that endocarditis may
be the cause of the symptoms. There have been ongoing efforts in the
development of molecular probes and new imaging techniques to improve our
ability to identify the disease early and reliably.  New treatment strategies have been studied
with the aim to prevent complications and to improve survival.
The
structure of the previous edition is preserved. 
The book is divided into three sections with the first section covering
the historical perspective and basic principles, the second section dealing
with the diagnosis and management approaches and the last section on specific
clinical situations that pose management dilemmas.  All the chapters will be updated to include new
information from the recent studies.  In
particular, the approach to the use of antibiotic prophylaxis will be
extensively revised to present and discuss the implications of the current
guidelines from different national societies including the American Heart
Association and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

This update is timely and should be of
interest to all clinicians involved in the care of patients with this serious
disease. This new edition will be a good resource for
internists, infectious disease specialists, cardiologists and cardiac surgeons
alike .
 

Product details

• Assisted by: Kwan-Leun Chan (Editor), Kwan-Leung Chan (Editor), John M. Embil (Editor), M Embil (Editor), M Embil (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319277820
• ISBN: 978-3-31-927782-0
• No. of pages: 412
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 243 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 819 g
• Illustrations: XII, 412 p. 60 illus., 39 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; B, Medicine, Surgery, INTERNAL MEDICINE, critical care medicine, Infectious & contagious diseases, infectious diseases, Cardiac Surgery, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine