Infective endocarditis

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• Causes

  • Prosthetic cardiac valve
  • Valvular heart disease
  • Pacemaker
  • Mitral regurgitation
  • Intravenous drug abuse
  • Central line
  • Haemodialysis
  • Ventricular septal defect
  • Ostium secundum atrial septal defect
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Coarctation of the aorta
  • Severe combined immunodeficiency
  • Atrial myxoma
  • Whipple's disease
  • Congenital heart disease

• Effects

  • Splinter haemorrhage
  • Osler node
  • Janeway lesion
  • Subconjunctival haemorrhage
  • Roth spots
  • Cardiac vegetation
  • Valvular heart disease
  • Mitral regurgitation
  • Normocytic anaemia
  • septic emboli
  • Mycotic aneurysm
  • Microvasculitis
  • Secondary vasculitis
  • Monocytosis
  • Fingernail clubbing
  • Aortic regurgitation
  • Renal emboli
  • Rheumatoid factor positive
  • Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
  • Acquired complement deficiency
  • Cotton wool exudate
  • Peripheral infarct
  • Splenic response to infection

• Parents

  • Chronic bacterial infection
  • Endocarditis

• Children

  • Right-sided bacterial endocarditis
  • Bacterial endocarditis
  • Fungal endocarditis