Management of patients with infectious endocarditis at the present stage

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The problem of infective endocarditis (IE) continues to maintain its importance because of the high mortality rate and severe complications. Modern IE is a polyetiological disease, the emergence and development of which may be due to pathogens, components of an extremely extensive list, enlarged almost every year. Given the marked clinical polymorphism, special attention is paid to early diagnosis of the disease, including the use of new medical technologies, and the timely use of antimicrobial therapy. In terms of the increasing amount of information of great practical importance is the timely informing of doctors about modern principles of treatment of patients with IE. In the present review, the main approaches to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of IE taking into account the latest recommendations of experts of the European Society of Cardiology-2015.

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B. S Belov

V.A.Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology

Email: belovbor@yandex.ru
д-р мед. наук, зав. лаб. изучения роли инфекций при ревматических заболеваниях ФГБНУ НИИ ревматологии им. В.А.Насоновой 115522, Russian Federation, Moscow, Kashirskoe sh., d. 34a

G. M Tarasova

V.A.Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology

канд. мед. наук, ст. науч. сотр. лаб. изучения роли инфекций при ревматических заболеваниях ФГБНУ НИИ ревматологии им. В.А.Насоновой 115522, Russian Federation, Moscow, Kashirskoe sh., d. 34a

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