infective endocarditis in a sentence

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1. Bacteraemia is a condition in which bacteria are present in the blood and may cause disease, including systemic disease such as infective endocarditis.
2. However, in early 2007 Harding was hospitalised after being diagnosed with infective endocarditis, caused by injecting heroin with a dirty or contaminated needle.
3. Regarding infective endocarditis, embolic complications and bleeding due to anticoagulant treatment, there is only scant data in the publications analysed for this article.
4. However, in general the incidence of infective endocarditis in a general population has been estimated at between 2 and 6 cases per 100, 000.
5. In severe cases of classic MVP, complications include mitral regurgitation, infective endocarditis, congestive heart failure, and, in rare circumstances, cardiac arrest.
6. This species was defined in 2001 and has since then been increasingly recognized as a pathogen causing urinary tract infections and also invasive infections including infective endocarditis.
7. In 2000, an 18-year-old female drug user in Turkey was diagnosed with infective endocarditis caused by " C . histolyticum ".
8. These include the HACEK organisms, which are part of the normal oropharyngeal flora and are responsible for perhaps 5 to 10 % of infective endocarditis affecting native valves.
9. Other factors that increase the risk of developing infective endocarditis are low levels of white blood cells, immunodeficiency or immunosuppression, malignancy, diabetes mellitus, and alcohol abuse.
10. The authors make a remark : Prior to heart valve replacement 86 patients suffered from infective endocarditis but only 9 of these patients developed recurrent infection following pericardial valve replacement.