Patients should be educated regarding the symptoms of recurrent endocarditis and they should be told to remind future healthcare providers that three blood cultures should be drawn from separate sites before antibiotics are administered.  Unfortunately,  the administration of antibiotics before obtaining blood cultures is  the predominant cause of (blood) culture negative endocarditis.
Endocarditis long term care
Cardiac diseases in AIDS surgery
Endocarditis medical therapy
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis surgery
Endocarditis surgical treatment
Congestive heart failure left ventricular assist devices
Right heart failure medical therapy
Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis surgery