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Infective Endocarditis and Valvular Heart Disease
Key Concepts Infectious endocarditis (IE) is more often caused by Staphylococcus species than Streptococcus, and increasingly occurs in elderly, recently hospitalized patients, those with prosthetic valves and intra-cardiac devices, and in patients who inject opioids. IE should be considered in…