Cardiology
Study reveals unequal access to addiction care in the Maritimes
When we walk through the doors of a hospital, as a patient we expect to receive the best care that is medically available.
Mar 18, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Take-home antibiotic therapies may improve health outcomes for patients with drug use-associated infective endocarditis
A new modelling study suggests that when patients who inject opioids continue an antibiotic treatment for infective endocarditis outside of the hospital, they experience better long-term health outcomes than patients who ...
Feb 28, 2022
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Medications
Less antibiotic use in dentistry shows no increase in endocarditis
Sweden is one of the few countries that have removed the dental health recommendation to give prophylactic antibiotics to people at a higher risk of infection of the heart valves, so-called infective endocarditis. Since the ...
Feb 17, 2022
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Cardiology
Good dental health may help prevent heart infection from mouth bacteria
Maintenance of good oral health is more important than use of antibiotics in dental procedures for some heart patients to prevent a heart infection caused by bacteria around the teeth, according to a new American Heart Association ...
Apr 15, 2021
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Cardiology
More heart infections and strokes in the U.S. linked to national opioid epidemic
The ongoing U.S. opioid epidemic may have led to an increase in the number of strokes due to more bacterial infections of the heart, or infective endocarditis, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American ...
Mar 11, 2021
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Medications
Controlled-release opioid may be leading to heart infections in persons who inject drugs
A new study from ICES, Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University suggests that injection drug users prescribed controlled-release hydromorphone are three times more likely to develop endocarditis, a serious ...
Jan 22, 2020
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Surgery
Injecting illegal drugs ups risk for death after heart surgery
(HealthDay)—People who inject drugs (PWID) have shorter survival following cardiac surgery than non-PWID, according to a review published online Nov. 8 in BMC Infectious Diseases.
Nov 13, 2019
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Surgery
Substance use disorder ups risk for death after IE valve surgery
(HealthDay)—Patients with infective endocarditis (IE) and substance use disorder (SUD) have a more than twofold risk for dying following valve surgery compared with patients without SUD, according to a study published online ...
Oct 22, 2019
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Cardiology
Public reporting on aortic valve surgeries has decreased access, study finds
Public reporting on aortic valve replacement outcomes has resulted in fewer valve surgeries for people with endocarditis, a new study has found. The researchers looked at national data from people with injection drug use ...
Oct 11, 2019
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Cardiology
Risk of heart valve infections rising in hospitals
People with heart disease or defective or artificial heart valves are at increased risk of developing a potentially deadly valve infection. Rutgers researchers reported that new risk factors for this condition have emerged ...
Sep 29, 2019
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