Valve replacement was also required in some cases of infectious endocarditis.

In patients at risk of infectious endocarditis, ampicillin usually provides satisfactory prophylaxis.

The United Kingdom recommends against its use for infectious endocarditis prophylaxis.

Infectious endocarditis.

Corynebacterium amycolatum has been shown to cause pneumonia, peritonitis, empyema, infectious endocarditis, and fatal sepsis, most of which occur as nosocomial infections.

An embolus is most frequently a thrombus, but it can also be a number of other substances including fat (e.g., from bone marrow in a broken bone), air, cancer cells or clumps of bacteria (usually from infectious endocarditis).