Dentistry as a cause of Endocarditis in Baghdad governorate
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32828/mdj.v3i1.616Keywords:
Key Word: Endocarditis, AHA guides lines, Prophylactic antibiotics, and dentist's complianceAbstract
Endocarditis is a localized microbial infection of the heart valves or endocardium adjacent to congenital or acquired heart defects. It is the dentist's responsibility to prevent the occurrence of endocarditis by following the latest recommendations usually issued by the American Heart Association on prevention of endocarditis. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the role of Dentistry in causing endocarditis among Iraqi at risk patients. A retrospective study of patient's records in three major hospitals in Baghdad was done. Thirty three cases of bacterial endocarditis were found and examined .The results indicated that (18%) of cases were preceded by dental procedures. Compliance with the guidelines on prevention of endocarditis is necessary for all at risk patients.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
The Journal of Mustansiria Dental Journal is an open-access journal that all contents are free of charge. Articles of this journal are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International Public License CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) that licensees are unrestrictly allowed to search, download, share, distribute, print, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing and reproduce any medium of the articles provided that they give the author(s) proper credits (citation). The journal allows the author(s) to retain the copyright of their published article.
Creative Commons-Attribution (BY)
