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Endocarditis - Duke Criteria - Major and Minor

MAJOR CRITERIA: 
 - Persistently +ve blood culture for
Endocarditis - Duke ... #Endocarditis #Duke
Endocarditis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
What is it? Inflammation of endocardium, typically secondary to infection of
spots) Diagnosis: Duke ... Diagnosis #Summary #duke
Duke's Criteria for Infective Endocarditis
Definite IE - Pathologic Criteria:
 • Pathologic lesions - vegetation or intracardiac
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Infective Endocarditis: Modified Duke Criteria
Clinical Criteria: 
1. Two major criteria 
2. One major and three minor
Endocarditis: Modified Duke
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
ischemic insult due ... Suspicion -> TEE • Duke
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
ischemic insult due ... Suspicion → TEE • Duke
Visual Field Pathways and Deficits
1 Total blindness of right eye due to complete lesion of right
blindness of right eye due ... Bipolar hemianopia due ... homonymous hemianopia due ... quadrantanopia due ... homonymous hemianopia due
Hyperkalemic Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis (RTA) Type 4 - 

Failure to acidify urine in collecting duct
collecting duct due ... reabsorption Either due
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Prerenal:
 • Due to true volume loss or decreased
Prerenal: • Due ... Intrinsic: • Due ... Postrenal: • Due
Jugular Waveform Components 
 • a wave - due to atrial contraction: It occurs just before
Components • a wave - due ... • x descent - due ... • x descent - due