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Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis

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ENDOCARDIUM infection that is usually caused by STREPTOCOCCUS. Subacute infective endocarditis evolves over weeks and months with modest toxicity and rare metastatic infection.

Also Known As:

Endocarditis, Subacute Bacterial; Bacterial Endocarditides, Subacute; Bacterial Endocarditis, Subacute; Endocarditides, Subacute Bacterial; Subacute Bacterial Endocarditides; Endocarditis Lenta

Networked: 370 relevant articles (13 outcomes, 10 trials/studies)

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Disease Context: Research Results

Related Diseases

1.	Infection
2.	Heart Diseases (Heart Disease)
3.	Glomerulonephritis
4.	Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Libman-Sacks Disease)
5.	Endocarditis

Experts

1.	Cunha, Burke A: 2 articles (01/2010 - 03/2003)
2.	Giovinazzo, Jerome: 1 article (01/2013)
3.	Mrejen, Sarah: 1 article (01/2013)
4.	Freund, K Bailey: 1 article (01/2013)
5.	Imperato, Austin C: 1 article (12/2012)
6.	Imperato, Pascal James: 1 article (12/2012)
7.	Imperato, Gavin H: 1 article (12/2012)
8.	Gabos, Peter G: 1 article (01/2012)
9.	Thacker, Mihir: 1 article (01/2012)
10.	Inan, Muharrem: 1 article (01/2012)

Drugs and Biologics

Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis:

1.	Penicillins (Penicillin)FDA Link 05/01/1948 - "Subacute bacterial endocarditis; report of a case treated successfully with penicillin." 05/01/1946 - "Subacute bacterial endocarditis clinically cured with large doses of penicillin by continuous intramuscular drip." 04/01/1951 - "Subacute bacterial endocarditis; a review of 442 patients treated in 14 centers appointed by the Penicillin Trials Committee of the Medical Research Council." 03/01/1947 - "Penicillin therapy of subacute bacterial endocarditis: a study of the end results in 34 cases, with particular reference to dosage, methods of administration, criteria for judging adequacy of treatment and probable reasons for failures." 03/16/1946 - "Penicillin in subacute bacterial endocarditis; report to the Medical Research Council on 147 patients treated in 14 centres appointed by the Penicillin Clinical Trials Committee."
2.	Chlortetracycline (Aureomycin)FDA Link 01/12/1952 - "Treatment of subacute bacterial endocarditis with aureomycin." 05/01/1951 - "[Results of first cases of subacute bacterial endocarditis treated with aureomycin]." 03/01/1951 - "Subacute bacterial endocarditis successfully treated with aureomycin." 06/01/1950 - "[Brucellosis simulating endocarditis lenta cured by aureomycin]." 10/01/1953 - "Chlortetracycline (aureomycin) in prevention of bacteremia following oral surgery; attempt to prevent subacute bacterial endocarditis in patients with heart disease."
3.	Antigen-Antibody Complex (Immune Complex)IBA 06/01/1986 - "Secondary to subacute bacterial endocarditis was the presence of high levels of circulating immune complexes. " 01/01/1975 - "These observations suggest that the glomerular localization of very large, poorly soluble or insoluble immune complexes may be responsible for the focal glomerular changes seen in association with subacute bacterial endocarditis, with anaphylactoid purpura, or for some of the most severe lesions developing during chronic immune complex diseases." 12/17/1977 - "Positive results obtained in the three methods were particularly found in patients with diseases generally presumed to represent immune complexes diseases including acute glomerulonephritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, polyarteritis nodosa, subacute bacterial endocarditis, and acute or chronic hepatitis." 12/01/1979 - "Immune complexes were detected in 51 sera from patients with a variety of immunological diseases; 14 systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 14 infectious mononucleosis (IM); 12 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 11 subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE). " 12/01/1986 - "In addition, the majority of patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis had elevated concentrations of circulating immune complexes (CICs) and rheumatoid factor (RF), both of which were absent in all but one of nine patients with acute bacterial endocarditis. "
4.	Streptomycin (Streptomycin Sulfate)FDA Link 08/11/1951 - "[Endocarditis lenta and streptomycin]." 04/18/1951 - "[Streptomycin therapy of subacute bacterial endocarditis]." 09/01/1950 - "[Streptomycin therapy of endocarditis lenta]." 08/19/1950 - "Streptomycin in subacute bacterial endocarditis; report of 3 cases." 01/01/1950 - "Subacute bacterial endocarditis in a child, 10 months old, successfully treated with streptomycin."
5.	Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies (ANCA)IBA 01/01/2000 - "To report a potentially important limitation of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) testing: positive results in patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE). " 01/01/2012 - "Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) occasionally exhibits positive cytoplasmic anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (c-ANCA) of the anti-proteinase-3 (PR-3) type. " 01/01/2012 - "Symptomatic anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-positive disease complicating subacute bacterial endocarditis: to treat or not to treat?" 01/01/2010 - "Seventeen cases of subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) have been reported. " 01/01/2010 - "A case of mistaken identity: subacute bacterial endocarditis associated with p-antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody."
6.	Anti-Bacterial Agents (Antibiotics)IBA 03/01/1977 - "Fourteen episodes of subacute bacterial endocarditis in 11 children were successfully treated with antibiotics, which in 13 cases were given largely by mouth. " 04/01/1971 - "[Selection of antibiotics in the treatment of subacute bacterial endocarditis]." 10/01/1960 - "Isolation of a Corynebacterium and its transitional forms from a case of subacute bacterial endocarditis treated with antibiotics." 01/01/1958 - "[Morphological changes of the central nervous system in endocarditis lenta treated by antibiotics]." 04/01/1956 - "The action of six antibiotics singly and in combination on enterococci isolated from cases of subacute bacterial endocarditis."
7.	Erythromycin (Erycette)FDA LinkGeneric 12/31/1955 - "Subacute bacterial endocarditis treated by intravenously given erythromycin; report of a case." 09/03/1955 - "[The treatment of subacute bacterial endocarditis with erythromycin]." 01/21/1955 - "[Erythromycin therapy of subacute bacterial endocarditis]." 01/01/1955 - "[Osler's endocarditis lenta with Streptococci resistant to other antibiotics cured by erythromycin]." 10/01/1977 - "Erythromycin may be used as prophylactic therapy for subacute bacterial endocarditis and for recurrence of acute rheumatic fever in patients who are allergic to penicillin. "
8.	Tetracycline (Achromycin)FDA LinkGeneric 04/01/1955 - "[A case of subacute bacterial endocarditis cured with tetracycline]." 07/01/1954 - "[Tetracycline in the therapy of subacute bacterial endocarditis]." 01/01/1988 - "A combination of streptomycin, tetracycline and rifampicin with or without steroids was used successfully in neurobrucellosis, septicaemic shock and subacute bacterial endocarditis."
9.	Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptors (Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor)IBA 12/01/1993 - "When patients with malaria were used as a control group of acute intravascular infection with high circulating TNF values, the ratio between soluble TNF receptors and TNF on admission was significantly greater in the patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis. " 12/01/1993 - "Circulating tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF), soluble TNF receptors, and interleukin-6 in human subacute bacterial endocarditis."
10.	Prednisone (Sone)FDA LinkGeneric 06/01/1958 - "[A case of subacute bacterial endocarditis caused by staphylococcus treated with polyantibiotics and prednisone and cured with novobiocin]."

Therapies and Procedures

1.	Nursing Care 04/20/1983 - "Nursing care study: subacute bacterial endocarditis." 08/26/1981 - "Nursing care study: subacute bacterial endocarditis."
2.	Thrombolytic Therapy 08/01/1980 - "Fibrinolytic therapy in subacute bacterial endocarditis: an experimental study."
3.	Splenectomy 09/01/1962 - "Splenectomy in refractory subacute bacterial endocarditis." 05/27/1957 - "[Problem of splenectomy in endocarditis lenta, with report of a case]." 03/01/1956 - "Subacute bacterial endocarditis; splenectomy in cases refractory to antibiotic therapy." 04/18/1952 - "[The place of splenectomy in the management of subacute bacterial endocarditis]." 04/06/1952 - "[Splenectomy in endocarditis lenta; new contributions to the therapy of endocarditis lenta]."
4.	Ligation 03/01/1947 - "Ligation of the ductus arteriosus with a superimposed subacute bacterial endocarditis; report of a case treated successfully by ligation." 09/01/1952 - "Cure of subacute bacterial endocarditis by surgical ligation of the patent ductus arteriosus." 01/01/1975 - "From this series of 16 cerebral artery aneurysms in the paediatric age group the following points can be made: (a) aneurysms in the paediatric age group may be found in unusual locations, more peripherally than usually seen in the adult population, (b) in seven patients, the aneurysm was of giant size; two of these produced symptoms by mass effect, (c) in two patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis the aneurysm was mycotic; the inflammatory fusiform dilatation of the entire circle of Willis in one case was associated with generalized candidiasis, (d) an antecedent head injury in a child may so prejudice the initial clinical assessment that the possibility of haemorrhage from aneurysm is overlooked, and (e) gradual vertebral artery ligation, to reduce the pressure-head in fusiform aneurysms, is well tolerated by the young patient, even when done bilaterally." 05/24/1947 - "Patent ductus arteriosus with subacute bacterial endocarditis treated by penicillin and ligation."
5.	Aftercare (After-Treatment) 01/01/2013 - "To describe the retinal findings of subacute bacterial endocarditis, their evolution after treatment, and analysis with spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. " 12/01/1946 - "The cellular mechanism of recovery after treatment with penicillin; subacute bacterial endocarditis." 06/01/1946 - "The cellular mechanism of recovery after treatment with penicillin; subacute bacterial endocarditis." 07/01/1986 - "The amnesia completely resolved after treatment with intravenous penicillin for subacute bacterial endocarditis secondary to a viridans streptococcus. "