Infective Endocarditis—A Prospective Study at the End of the Twentieth Century

A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation

1987 • 44,619 citations

Proposed Modifications to the Duke Criteria for the Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis

2000 • 3,775 citations

New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis: utilization of specific echocardiographic findings

1994 • 2,498 citations

Infective Endocarditis: An Analysis Based on Strict Case Definitions

1981 • 789 citations

Improvement in the Diagnosis of Abscesses Associated with Endocarditis by Transesophageal Echocardiography

1991 • 722 citations

Systemic Infection Related to Endocarditis on Pacemaker Leads

1997 • 596 citations

INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS

1977 • 455 citations

Emboli in Infective Endocarditis: The Prognostic Value of Echocardiography

1991 • 407 citations

Epidemiologic Aspects of Infective Endocarditis in an Urban Population: A 5-Year Prospective Study

1995 • 338 citations

INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS—AN EVOLVING DISEASE

1978 • 302 citations

Oral antibiotic treatment of right-sided staphylococcal endocarditis in injection drug users: Prospective randomized comparison with parenteral therapy

1996 • 274 citations

Infective Endocarditis: Review of 135 Cases over 9 Years

1996 • 266 citations

Infective Endocarditis at a Large Community Teaching Hospital, 1980–1990

1993 • 261 citations

Right-sided Endocarditis in Intravenous Drug Users

1992 • 259 citations

Pacemaker Endocarditis Report of 44 Cases and Review of the Literature

1994 • 255 citations

Epidemiology of bacterial endocarditis in The Netherlands. I. Patient characteristics

1992 • 247 citations

Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis in the Detroit Medical Center

1982 • 238 citations

Clinical Features, Site of Involvement, Bacteriologic Findings, and Outcome of Infective Endocarditis in Intravenous Drug Users

1995 • 233 citations

Evaluation of new clinical criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis

1994 • 217 citations

Surgical treatment of prosthetic valve endocarditis

1996 • 190 citations

Suggested Modifications to the Duke Criteria for the Clinical Diagnosis of Native Valve and Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: Analysis of 118 Pathologically Proven Cases

1997 • 187 citations

Infective endocarditis: Clinical features in young and elderly patients

1987 • 186 citations

Infective endocarditis: clinical spectrum, presentation and outcome. An analysis of 212 cases 1980-1995

2000 • 181 citations

Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis Resulting from Nosocomial Bacteremia: A Prospective, Multicenter Study

1993 • 175 citations

Hospital-Acquired Infectious Endocarditis Not Associated with Cardiac Surgery: An Emerging Problem

1995 • 173 citations

Epidemiology of Bacterial Endocarditis in the Netherlands

1992 • 172 citations

Infective endocarditis in the elderly in the era of transesophageal echocardiography: Clinical features and prognosis compared with younger patients

1996 • 171 citations

Prevention of Bacterial Endocarditis: Recommendations by the American Heart Association

1997 • 168 citations

Staphylococcus aureusProsthetic Valve Endocarditis: Optimal Management and Risk Factors for Death

1998 • 158 citations

Staphylococcus aureus catheter-associated bacteremia. Minimal effective therapy and unusual infectious complications associated with arterial sheath catheters

1995 • 152 citations

Synergistic effect of amoxicillin and cefotaxime against Enterococcus faecalis

1995 • 146 citations

Prosthetic valve endocarditis: Superiority of surgical valve replacement versus medical therapy only

1994 • 145 citations

Improved detection of infective endocarditis with transesophageal echocardiography

1992 • 144 citations

Infective Endocarditis in Intravenous Drug Users: A Comparison of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I-Negative and -Positive Patients

1990 • 134 citations

The Duke Criteria for Diagnosing Infective Endocarditis Are Specific: Analysis of 100 Patients with Acute Fever or Fever of Unknown Origin

1996 • 119 citations

Infective endocarditis, 1984 through 1993: a clinical and microbiological survey

1997 • 116 citations

Negative predictive value of the Duke criteria for infective endocarditis

1996 • 115 citations

Are the Duke Criteria Superior to the Beth Israel Criteria for the Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis in Children?

1998 • 111 citations

Hospital-Acquired Infective Endocarditis

1988 • 109 citations

Increasing frequency of staphylococcal infective endocarditis. Experience at a university hospital, 1981 through 1988

1990 • 107 citations

Clinical impact of transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis

1994 • 105 citations

Native Valve Infective Endocarditis in Elderly and Younger Adult Patients: Comparison of Clinical Features and Outcomes with Use of the Duke Criteria and the Duke Endocarditis Database

1998 • 104 citations

Staphylococcus aureus Catheter-Associated Bacteremia

1995 • 104 citations

Infective endocarditis: Ten-year review of medical and surgical therapy

1996 • 102 citations

Clinical information determines the impact of transesophageal echocardiography on the diagnosis of infective endocarditis by the Duke criteria

2000 • 94 citations

Predictors of prognosis and risk of acute renal failure in bacterial endocarditis.

1998 • 92 citations

Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis at a Community Teaching Hospital, 1980 to 1991

1994 • 86 citations

Prospective evaluation of a two-week course of intravenous antibiotics in intravenous drug addicts with infective endocarditis

1994 • 83 citations

Role of transoesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis and management of aortic root abscess.

1994 • 80 citations

New diagnostic criteria for infective endocarditis: A study of sensitivity and specificity

1997 • 73 citations

Early surgery in infective endocarditis

1996 • 70 citations

Infective Endocarditis in Injection Drug Users: Importance of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Serostatus and Degree of Immunosuppression

1996 • 70 citations

An Assessment of the Usefulness of the Duke Criteria for Diagnosing Active Infective Endocarditis

1997 • 70 citations

Hospital acquired native valve endocarditis: analysis of 22 cases presenting over 11 years

1998 • 67 citations

The impact of transesophageal echocardiography on the management of prosthetic valve endocarditis: experience of 31 cases and review of the literature.

1997 • 65 citations

Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis

1998 • 64 citations

An Evaluation of the Duke Criteria in 25 Pathologically Confirmed Cases of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis

1997 • 60 citations

Increasing Frequency of Staphylococcal Infective Endocarditis

1990 • 60 citations

Endocarditis in an Urban Hospital in the 1990s

1996 • 56 citations

Is the clinical spectrum and prognosis of native valve infective endocarditis in non-addicts changing?

1995 • 53 citations

Comparison of the von Reyn and Duke Criteria for the Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis: A Critical Analysis of 161 Episodes

1996 • 53 citations

Absence of synergistic activity between ampicillin and vancomycin against highly vancomycin-resistant enterococci

1992 • 49 citations

Therapy with RP 59500 (Quinupristin/Dalfopristin) for Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis Due to Enterococci with VanA/VanB Resistance Patterns

1997 • 48 citations

Septicaemia and Endocarditis — Uncommon But Serious Complications in Connection with Permanent Cardiac Pacing

1982 • 42 citations

Transesophageal and Doppler Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Management of Infective Endocarditis

1991 • 39 citations

Use of transoesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of abscess in infective endocarditis

1995 • 30 citations

[Study of 164 episodes of infectious endocarditis in drug addicts: comparison of HIV positive and negative patients].

1994 • 17 citations

[Nosocomial infective endocarditis in patients without hear prosthesis].

1997 • 10 citations

[Current aspects of infectious endocarditis. Apropos of 53 cases].

1994 • 7 citations