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Infective Endocarditis
- Pathophysiology
- Pre-existing endocardial damage
- Previously normal heart
- Microbiology
- Pre-existing endocardial damage
- Incidence
- > 60 years
- underlying conditions
- Rheumatic heart disease
- Congenital heart disease
- other cardiac abnormality
- calcified aortic valve
- floppy mitral valve
- calcified aortic valve
- Rheumatic heart disease
- > 60 years
- Clinical features
- Subacute
- Acute
- Post-operative
- Subacute
- Investigations
- Blood culture
- Echocardiography
- ESR, CRP, TWC
- ECG
- Chest X-ray
- Blood culture
- Management
- Introduction
- due to
- microbial infection of a heart valve
- native
- prosthetic
- native
- the lining of a cardiac chamber or blood vessel
- a congenital anomaly
- septal defect
- septal defect
- microbial infection of a heart valve
- causative organism
- bacterium (usually)
- Rickettsia
- Chlamydia
- Fungus
- bacterium (usually)
- due to
- Prevention
- antibiotic prophylaxis no longer offered
- antibiotic prophylaxis no longer offered
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