[Urgent problems of medical aid in infectious endocarditis]

The authors analyze the incidence of infectious endocarditis (IE), the influence of diagnostic time on the lethality, the significance of surgical treatment. The main ways of further improvement of IE patient therapy are defined. They include the training of medical staff, centralization of the patients in the military medical institutions of the center by transfer from the districts after making the diagnosis in order to conduct the adequate medicamentous and appropriate surgical treatment.