[Epidemiology of infective endocarditis].
In industrialized countries, after the eradication of rheumatic fever, rheumatic valve diseases progressively disappeared and the proportion of post-rheumatic infective endocarditis significantly decreased. Intravenous drug use, prosthetic valves, age-related degenerative valve sclerosis, and invasive procedures have become the most important risk factors for infective endocarditis. These changes resulted in a decreased incidence of streptococcal endocarditis and an increased incidence of staphylococcal endocarditis.
Service de maladies infectieuses et tropicales, CHU de Besançon, France. bruno.hoen@univ-fcomte.fr
Bruno
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Hoen
Xavier
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Duval
D004696:Endocarditis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D011379:Prognosis; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality