Gilbert Habib
Editor

2016

Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Imaging, Therapy,
and Prevention

An up-to-date textbook on infective endocarditis is missing and sorely needed. With this book, we hope to have supplied precisely this. Although infective endocarditis is a cardiac disease that has been known to us for a very long time, it also is an ever-changing disease, with completely varying epidemiology, more and more nosocomial cases, more atypical clinical presentations, new microorganisms, new diagnostic techniques, and, finally, a persistent, severe prognosis.