Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations in patients with previous brain abscess: a cross-sectional population-based study.

Background And Purpose: Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) may cause recurrent brain abscess. The primary aim was to determine the prevalence of PAVM amongst survivors of brain abscess. The proportion with cardiac right-to-left shunts was also assessed post hoc.

Implementation of early palliative care in an oncologic outpatient clinic - an observational study of the first year.

Background: As earlier studies found that early onset specialized palliative care (ESPC) results in better quality of life (QoL), less hospitalization and chemotherapy toward end-of life, we implemented ESPC in our oncology outpatient clinic. The aim of this study was to describe reasons for referral, interventions performed and the satisfaction among the oncologic staff.

Material And Methods: The outpatient ESPC clinic was established in the department of oncology.

Severity of anaemia and association with all-cause mortality in patients with medically managed left-sided endocarditis.

Objective: To assess the prevalence and severity of anaemia in patients with left-sided infective endocarditis (IE) and association with mortality.

Methods: In the Partial Oral versus Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment of Endocarditis trial, 400 patients with IE were randomised to conventional or partial oral antibiotic treatment after stabilisation of infection, showing non-inferiority. Haemoglobin (Hgb) levels were measured at randomisation.

The epidemiology of infective endocarditis with focus on non-device related right-sided infective endocarditis: A retrospective register-based study in the region of Southern Denmark.

Aims: Non-device related right-sided infective endocarditis (ND-RSIE) is not well characterized. We aimed to characterize patients with infective endocarditis (IE) with emphasis on the epidemiology, clinical characteristics and complications of ND-RSIE.

Methods: In this population-based cohort study, we identified patients with IE using ICD-10 codes from the Danish National Hospital Register in the Region of Southern Denmark between January 2007 and May 2017.

Whole-genome sequencing of bloodstream Staphylococcus aureus isolates does not distinguish bacteraemia from endocarditis.

Most Staphylococcus aureus isolates can cause invasive disease given the right circumstances, but it is unknown if some isolates are more likely to cause severe infections than others. S. aureus bloodstream isolates from 120 patients with definite infective endocarditis and 121 with S.

[Fulminant perimyocarditis following tonsillitis].

Fulminant perimyocarditis is a rare and potentially fatal condition that may mimick myocardial infarction. The long-term prognosis is favourable, once the patient has survived the index admission, and recurrence is extremely rare. This case describes a 35-year-old man, who experienced recurrence twice within six months.