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Dr. James Riddell, Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan, noted a disturbing trend in the cause of heart valve infections he’s now seeing over recent years.
You guessed it: injection drug use is now causing the majority of endocarditis he is seeing in his practice. We talk about the challenges and opportunities that present themselves when these patients are hospitalized. Could managing the root cause of their infections be the key?
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