An alarming rise in incidence of infective endocarditis in England since 2009: why?

Affiliations

¹ Unit of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine Surgery and Pathology, School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TA, UK; Department of Oral Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center-Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, USA. Electronic address: m.thornhill@sheffield.ac.uk.
² Department of Cardiology, Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, Taunton, UK.
³ School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Oral Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center-Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, USA.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA.

Comment

Martin H Thornhill et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Apr 25;395(10233):1325-1327.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30530-4.

¹ Unit of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine Surgery and Pathology, School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TA, UK; Department of Oral Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center-Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, USA. Electronic address: m.thornhill@sheffield.ac.uk.
² Department of Cardiology, Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, Taunton, UK.
³ School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Oral Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center-Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, USA.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA.

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Incidence of infective endocarditis in England, 2000-13: a secular trend, interrupted time-series analysis.
Dayer MJ, Jones S, Prendergast B, Baddour LM, Lockhart PB, Thornhill MH. Dayer MJ, et al. Lancet. 2015 Mar 28;385(9974):1219-28. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62007-9. Epub 2014 Nov 18. Lancet. 2015. PMID: 25467569 Free PMC article.