title: [Infective endocarditis].
abstract: Infective endocarditis is a severe disease. This fact justifies prophylaxis, although its indications have been narrowed over the last years; as early the diagnosis as possible, that forbids any antibiotic treatment without previous blood cultures in a patient with a cardiac disease at risk for infective endocarditis; often cardiac surgery, whose indications remain difficult and need the collaboration of the cardiologist, the infectious diseases specialist and the cardiac surgeon.
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie, hôpital Louis-Pradel, Hospices civils de Lyon, université Claude-Bernard-Lyon-I, Lyon 69677 Lyon (Bron) Cedex, France. francois.delahaye@chu-lyon.fr
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Delahaye
authors.forename: Brahim
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Harbaoui
authors.forename: Virginie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cart-Regal
authors.forename: Guy Durand
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: de Gevigney