1. Noninfective Endocarditis: Endocarditis: Merck Manual Professional -- Merck Co., Inc. Is A Glob...
Noninfective endocarditis (nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis) refers to formation of sterile platelet and fibrin thrombi on cardiac valves and adjacent endocardium in response to trauma, circulating immune complexes, vasculitis, or a...
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec07/ch077/ch077c.html

2. Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines:Evaluation and Management of Infect...
) and noninfective endocarditis such as Libman-Sacks endocarditis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Evaluation and Management of Infective Endocarditis suspicion of infective endocarditis may be raised by the presence of fever and...
http://www.acc.org/qualityandscience/clinical/guidelines/valvular/jac5929fla112...

3. August issue.indd -- Royal College Of Surgeons Of Edinburgh ...
To put the risk-benefit into perspective, it has been estimated that 1.36 people per million population are likely to die from penicillin-induced anaphylaxis to prevent infective endocarditis, whereas only 0.26 deaths per million population are...
http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/journal/svol1_4/10400002.html