[Survival of patients with infectious endocarditis in various treatment methods].

The aim of the study was to compare survival of patients with infectious endocarditis (IE) by abuse of intravenous narcotic substances in conservative and combined treatment in acute IE phase. A total of 195 IE patients were examined. 121 of them was treated conservatively, 74 patients received a combined treatment including surgical one.

[Right ventricular myocardial infarction in a patient with infectious endocarditis].

A case of right and left ventricular myocardial infarction in infectious endocarditis of the aortic valve in an injected drug abuser is reported. The infarction was diagnosed only in autopsy. Diagnostic difficulties are discussed.

[Infectious endocarditis of the left heart atrium in injection drug addicts].

Aim: To study etiology, clinical picture, course and prognosis of left heart infection endocarditis (LHIE) in drug addicts.

Material And Methods: 61 drug addicts entered the study. 14 of them had lesions of the left heart valves (group 1), 11--of the right and left heart valves (group 2), 36--of the tricuspid valve (group 3), 39 control patients with LHIE had no addiction.