Intravenous; LV: Left ventricle; NS: Not significant; PVE: Prosthetic valve endocarditis ... to allow a period of days or weeks antibiotic treatment under careful clinical and echocardiographic ...

[10] By contrast, nafcillin, a semisynthetic penicillin extensively used as the drug of choice for treatment of a number of meticillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) infections such as endocarditis ...

Results of preliminary studies suggest that certain cephalosporin C derivatives may be useful in the treatment of bacterial endocarditis. 11–15 Both cephalothin and cephaloridine have the ...