Surgery for infective endocarditis

Autor: Patricia D. Brown

Publikováno v: Current Infectious Disease Reports. 9:291-296

Infective endocarditis (IE) is estimated to have an incidence of five to seven cases per 100,000 person-years. Although not a common clinical entity, IE is associated with substantial morbidity and risk of mortality. IE, especially infections due to

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-007-0045-9

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Autor: Kjersti Aagaard, Fredrick M. Abrahamian, Ban Mishu Allos, David R. Andes, Fred Y. Aoki, Michael A. Apicella, Kevin L. Ard, Cesar A. Arias, David M. Aronoff, Michael H. Augenbraun, Francisco Averhoff, Dimitri T. Azar, Larry M. Baddour, Lindsey R. Baden, Carol J. Baker, Ronald C. Ballard, Gerard R. Barber, Scott D. Barnes, Dan H. Barouch, Alan D. Barrett, Miriam Baron Barshak, Sridhar V. Basavaraju, Byron E. Batteiger, Stephen G. Baum, Arnold S. Bayer, J. David Beckham, Susan E. Beekmann, Beth P. Bell, John E. Bennett, Dennis A. Bente, Elie F. Berbari, Jonathan Berman, Joseph S. Bertino, Adarsh Bhimraj, Holly H. Birdsall, Alan L. Bisno, Brian G. Blackburn, Lucas S. Blanton, Martin J. Blaser, Thomas P. Bleck, Nicole M.A. Blijlevens, David A. Bobak, William Bonnez, John C. Boothroyd, Luciana L. Borio, Patrick J. Bosque, John Bower, Robert W. Bradsher, Itzhak Brook, Kevin E. Brown, Patricia D. Brown, Barbara A. Brown-Elliott, Roberta L. Bruhn, Amy E. Bryant, Eileen M. Burd, Jane C. Burns, Larry M. Bush, Stephen B. Calderwood, Luz Elena Cano, Charles C.J. Carpenter, Mary T. Caserta, Elio Castagnola, Richard E. Chaisson, Henry F. Chambers, Stephen J. Chapman, James D. Chappell, Lea Ann Chen, Sharon C-A Chen, Anthony W. Chow, Rebecca A. Clark, Jeffrey I. Cohen, Myron S. Cohen, Ronit Cohen-Poradosu, Susan E. Cohn, Mark Connors, Lawrence Corey, Mackenzie L. Cottrell, Timothy L. Cover, Heather L. Cox, William A. Craig, Kent B. Crossley, Clyde S. Crumpacker, James W. Curran, Bart J. Currie, Erika D'Agata, Inger K. Damon, Rabih O. Darouiche, Roberta L. DeBiasi, George S. Deepe, Carlos del Rio, Andrew S. Delemos, Frank R. DeLeo, Gregory P. DeMuri, Peter Densen, Terence S. Dermody, Robin Dewar, James H. Diaz, Carl W. Dieffenbach, Jules L. Dienstag, Yohei Doi, Raphael Dolin, J. Peter Donnelly, Michael S. Donnenberg, Gerald R. Donowitz, Philip R. Dormitzer, James M. Drake, J. Stephen Dumler, J. Stephen Dummer, Herbert L. DuPont, David T. Durack, Marlene L. Durand, Paul H. Edelstein, Michael B. Edmond, John E. Edwards, Morven S. Edwards, George M. Eliopoulos, Richard T. Ellison, Timothy P. Endy, N. Cary Engleberg, Hakan Erdem, Joel D. Ernst, Peter B. Ernst, Rick M. Fairhurst, Jessica K. Fairley, Stanley Falkow, Ann R. Falsey, Anthony S. Fauci, Thomas Fekete, Paul D. Fey, Steven M. Fine, Daniel W. Fitzgerald, Anthony R. Flores, Derek Forster, Vance G. Fowler, David O. Freedman, Arthur M. Friedlander, John N. Galgiani, John I. Gallin, Robert C. Gallo, Tejal N. Gandhi, Wendy S. Garrett, Charlotte A. Gaydos, Thomas W. Geisbert, Jeffrey A. Gelfand, Steven P. Gelone, Dale N. Gerding, Anne A. Gershon, Janet R. Gilsdorf, Ellie J.C. Goldstein, Fred M. Gordin, Paul S. Graman, M. Lindsay Grayson, Jeffrey Bruce Greene, Patricia M. Griffin, David E. Griffith, Richard L. Guerrant, H. Cem Gul, David A. Haake, David W. Haas, Charles Haines, Caroline Breese Hall, Joelle Hallak, Scott A. Halperin, Margaret R. Hammerschlag, Rashidul Haque, Jason B. Harris, Claudia Hawkins, Roderick J. Hay, Craig W. Hedberg, David K. Henderson, Donald A. Henderson, Kevin P. High, Adrian V.S. Hill, David R. Hill, Alan R. Hinman, Martin S. Hirsch, Aimee Hodowanec, Tobias M. Hohl, Steven M. Holland, Robert S. Holzman, Edward W. Hook, David C. Hooper, Thomas M. Hooton, Harold W. Horowitz, C. Robert Horsburgh, James M. Horton, Duane R. Hospenthal, Kevin Hsueh, James M. Hughes, Noreen A. Hynes, Nicole M. Iovine, Jonathan R. Iredell, Michael G. Ison, J. Michael Janda, Edward N. Janoff, Eric C. Johannsen, Angela D.M. Kashuba, Dennis L. Kasper, Donald Kaye, Keith S. Kaye, Kenneth M. Kaye, James W. Kazura, Jay S. Keystone, Rima Khabbaz, David A. Khan, Yury Khudyakov, Rose Kim, Charles H. King, Louis V. Kirchhoff, Jerome O. Klein, Michael Klompas, Bettina M. Knoll, Kirk U. Knowlton, Jane E. Koehler, Stephan A. Kohlhoff, Eija Könönen, Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, Igor J. Koralnik, Poonum S. Korpe, Anita A. Koshy, Joseph A. Kovacs, Phyllis Kozarsky, John Krieger, Andrew T. Kroger, Matthew J. Kuehnert, Nalin M. Kumar, Merin Elizabeth Kuruvilla, Regina C. LaRocque, James E. Leggett, Helena Legido-Quigley, Paul N. Levett, Donald P. Levine, Matthew E. Levison, Alexandra Levitt, Russell E. Lewis, W. Conrad Liles, Aldo A.M. Lima, Ajit P. Limaye, W. Ian Lipkin, Nathan Litman, Bennett Lorber, Ruth Ann Luna, Conan MacDougall, Rob Roy, Philip A. Mackowiak, Lawrence C. Madoff, Alan J. Magill, James H. Maguire, Frank Maldarelli, Lewis Markoff, Jeanne M. Marrazzo, Thomas J. Marrie, Thomas Marth, David H. Martin, Gregory J. Martin, Francisco M. Marty, Melanie Jane Maslow, Henry Masur, Alison Mawle, Kenneth H. Mayer, John T. McBride, James S. McCarthy, William M. McCormack, Catherine C. McGowan, Kenneth McIntosh, Paul S. Mead, Malgorzata Mikulska, Robert F. Miller, Samuel I. Miller, David H. Mitchell, John F. Modlin, Rajal K. Mody, Robert C. Moellering, Matthew Moffa, Susan Moir, José G. Montoya, Thomas A. Moore, Philippe Moreillon, J. Glenn Morris, Caryn Gee Morse, Robin Moseley, Robert S. Munford, Edward L. Murphy, Timothy F. Murphy, Barbara E. Murray, Clinton K. Murray, Patrick R. Murray, Daniel M. Musher, Jerod L. Nagel, Esteban C. Nannini, Anna Narezkina, Theodore E. Nash, William M. Nauseef, Jennifer L. Nayak, Marguerite A. Neill, Judith A. O'Donnell, Christopher A. Ohl, Pablo C. Okhuysen, Andrew B. Onderdonk, Steven M. Opal, Walter A. Orenstein, Douglas R. Osmon, Michael T. Osterholm, Stephen M. Ostroff, Michael N. Oxman, Slobodan Paessler, Andrea V. Page, Manjunath P. Pai, Tara N. Palmore, Raj Palraj, Peter G. Pappas, Mark S. Pasternack, Thomas F. Patterson, Deborah Pavan-Langston, David A. Pegues, Robert L. Penn, John R. Perfect, Stanley Perlman, Brett W. Petersen, Phillip K. Peterson, William A. Petri, Cathy A. Petti, Jennifer A. Philips, Julie V. Philley, Michael Phillips, Larry K. Pickering, Peter Piot, Jason M. Pogue, Aurora Pop-Vicas, Cynthia Portal-Celhay, John H. Powers, Richard N. Price, Yok-Ai Que, Justin D. Radolf, Sanjay Ram, Didier Raoult, Jonathan I. Ravdin, Stuart C. Ray, Annette C. Reboli, Marvin S. Reitz, David A. Relman, Cybèle A. Renault, Angela Restrepo, John H. Rex, Elizabeth G. Rhee, Norbert J. Roberts, José R. Romero, Alan L. Rothman, Craig R. Roy, Kathryn L. Ruoff, Mark E. Rupp, Charles E. Rupprecht, Thomas A. Russo, William A. Rutala, Edward T. Ryan, Amar Safdar, Mohammad M. Sajadi, Juan C. Salazar, Juan Carlos Sarria, Maria C. Savoia, Paul E. Sax, W. Michael Scheld, Joshua T. Schiffer, David Schlossberg, Thomas Schneider, Anne Schuchat, Jane R. Schwebke, Cynthia L. Sears, Leopoldo N. Segal, Parham Sendi, Kent A. Sepkowitz, Edward J. Septimus, Alexey Seregin, Stanford T. Shulman, George K. Siberry, Omar K. Siddiqi, Costi D. Sifri, Michael S. Simberkoff, Francesco R. Simonetti, Kamaljit Singh, Nina Singh, Upinder Singh, Scott W. Sinner, Sumathi Sivapalasingam, Leonard N. Slater, A. George Smulian, Jack D. Sobel, M. Rizwan Sohail, David E. Soper, Tania C. Sorrell, James M. Steckelberg, Allen C. Steere, Neal H. Steigbigel, James P. Steinberg, David S. Stephens, Timothy R. Sterling, David A. Stevens, Dennis L. Stevens, Jacob Strahilevitz, Charles W. Stratton, Anthony F. Suffredini, Kathryn N. Suh, Mark S. Sulkowski, Morton N. Swartz, Thomas R. Talbot, C. Sabrina Tan, Ming Tan, Chloe Lynne Thio, David L. Thomas, Lora D. Thomas, Stephen J. Thomas, Anna R. Thorner, Angela María Tobón, Edmund C. Tramont, John J. Treanor, Jason Trubiano, Athe M.N. Tsibris, Allan R. Tunkel, Ronald B. Turner, Kenneth L. Tyler, Ahmet Uluer, Diederik van de Beek, Walter J.F.M. van der Velden, Edouard G. Vannier, Trevor C. Van, James Versalovic, Claudio Viscoli, Ellen R. Wald, Matthew K. Waldor, David H. Walker, Richard J. Wallace, Edward E. Walsh, Stephen R. Walsh, Peter D. Walzer, Christine A. Wanke, Cirle A. Warren, Ronald G. Washburn, Valerie Waters, David J. Weber, Michael D. Weiden, Geoffrey A. Weinberg, Daniel J. Weisdorf, Louis M. Weiss, David F. Welch, Thomas E. Wellems, Richard P. Wenzel, Melinda Wharton, A. Clinton White, Richard J. Whitley, Walter R. Wilson, Glenn W. Wortmann, William F. Wright, Jo-Anne H. Young, Vincent B. Young, Nadezhda Yun, Werner Zimmerli, Stephen H. Zinner, John J. Zurlo

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https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-1-4557-4801-3.00327-1

Ciprofloxacin for the Management of Urinary Tract Infection

Autor: Patricia D. Brown

Publikováno v: Women's Health. 2:509-516

Urinary tract infections are common, especially among women. A number of agents are available for the treatment of urinary tract infections but emerging resistance to commonly used first-line therapies has impacted the selection of empirical therapy.

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https://doi.org/10.2217/17455057.2.4.509

Antimicrobial selection in the treatment of pyelonephritis

Autor: Patricia D. Brown

Publikováno v: Current Infectious Disease Reports. 6:457-461

Pyelonephritis is a common clinical entity, although accurate data regarding the true prevalence of this infection are lacking. Acute pyelonephritis is associated with significant morbidity and even mortality. There are very few randomized controlled

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-004-0065-7

Impact of changing patterns of anti-microbial resistance in uropathogens: Emerging treatment and strategies

Autor: Patricia D. Brown

Publikováno v: Current Infectious Disease Reports. 5:499-503

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common, especially in women, and the microbiology of UTI is predictable. Over the past decade, numerous reports have documented increasing resistance among uropathogens to first-line agents for the treatment of UTI, e

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-003-0094-7