Infective Endocarditis Epidemiology Over Time: An Analysis of a National Registry Between 1996 and 2023

One of the approaches of studying diseases is how they evolve over time in different scenarios. Time may refer to years, decades, even centuries; scenarios may refer to different geographic peculiarities, epidemiological conditions, clinical and surgical therapeutic medical facilities available, access to proper health care, access to the diagnosis, and access to the treatment. Infective endocarditis has been subject to this approach over time after the description of the disease in seventheenth century. Among the historical outstanding contributions were the ...