Prospective Cohort Study of Infective Endocarditis in People Who Inject Drugs

“I think there is a clinical preconception about what these patients look like. The negative concept is that they're young, often have HIV or hepatitis C, present with tricuspid IE in the right heart, and nearly always have a staphylococcal infection, because it comes from needle use. This paper challenges some of those assumptions.”

“Lifelong interventions will be needed to reduce recidivism in [those] who have developed IE and survived, because they remain at high risk for subsequent bouts of IE, regardless of whether they continue to inject drugs or not.”