Many people who abuse opioids end up developing endocarditis—but physicians are considering alternative methods to treating these kinds of patients, because many of them continue to abuse drugs and many die earlier .
The trend was explored in a new feature published by NPR March 21.
Jonathan Eddinger, MD, a cardiologist at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, has been tracking patients addicted to opioids, trying to determine if they have died from endocarditis post treatment.
To do so, he’s using the internet, looking for online obituaries and clues on social media. He has found that 25 percent of the hospital’s patients treated for the condition had died after leaving the hospital.
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