[Infective endocarditis].
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.
Delahaye
François
F
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
Harbaoui
Brahim
B
Cart-Regal
Virginie
V
de Gevigney
Guy Durand
GD