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AHA — Infective Endocarditis: Diagnosis, Antibiotic Therapy, and Management

American Heart Association, 2026

Use multidisciplinary Endocarditis Team assessment, modern multimodality diagnostics and organism/prosthesis-specific antimicrobial and procedural management. In staphylococcal prosthetic-valve endocarditis, avoid routine gentamicin because harms outweigh benefit.

Expert opinionLow certainty
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