bacterial endocarditis

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. a bacterial infection of the inner lining of the heart, most often of the heart valves, characterized by fever, enlarged spleen, and heart murmur.

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Example Sentences

By 9:08 p.m., he said, Corritore had been pronounced dead from sepsis due to bacterial endocarditis - an infection that had reached her heart.

From Washington Times

The Lucas County Coroner’s Office ruled the death natural, but the cause of death was valvular heart disease because of bacterial endocarditis linked to IV drug abuse, meaning an infection entered the bloodstream and settled in her heart valve.

From Washington Times

Though her official cause of death was cardiac arrest, Alexis Arquette had been suffering from bacterial endocarditis, an infection of the heart, for three weeks before her death. 

From Los Angeles Times

The cause was bacterial endocarditis, a heart infection, said his wife, Rosalyn L. Jonas.

From Washington Post

He had been at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia since last month, when he underwent emergency surgery after contracting bacterial endocarditis, an infection in the tissue around his heart.

From New York Times