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Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
and Differential Diagnosis ... involves aortic and mitral ... Marantic (NTBE) Diagnosis ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #cardiology #infectiousdiseases
Endocarditis - Organisms
#Diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases #Endocarditis #HACEK #Typical #Organisms
Endocarditis - Organisms ... #Diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases ... #Endocarditis #
Infective Endocarditis: Modified Duke Criteria
Clinical Criteria: 
1. Two major criteria 
2. One major and three minor
Infective Endocarditis ... #Diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases ... #Endocarditis #
Systolic Murmurs - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Benign / Flow / Hyperdynamic:
 • Pregnancy
 • Fever
 • Anemia
Supravalvular
- Differential Diagnosis ... Pulmonary Stenosis Mitral ... Marfan's Disease Mitral ... Fever • Trauma Mitral ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Primary and Secondary Causes of Mitral Regurgitation
Primary (organic) chronic mitral regurgitation:
 • Leaflet: Rheumatic fever, Infective
Secondary Causes of Mitral ... fever, Infective endocarditis ... fever, Infective endocarditis ... leak, Infective endocarditis ... #differential #diagnosis
Mitral valve endocarditis complicated by an abscess - Echocardiogram

Ivan Stankovic, MD, PhD @ https://twitter.com/Ivan_Echocardio

#MitralValve #Mitral #Valve
Mitral valve endocarditis ... #MitralValve #Mitral ... #Valve #endocarditis
Prosthetic Mitral Valve Endocarditis - No bueno!

- Dr. Said Alsidawi @AlsidawiMD

#Prosthetic #MitralValve #Endocarditis #Echocardiogram #POCUS #Clinical
Prosthetic Mitral ... Valve Endocarditis ... #MitralValve #Endocarditis
HACEK is the acronym commonly used to describe and help doctors to remember a group of
cause infective endocarditis ... less than 3% of endocarditis ... More commonly endocarditis ... #Diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases ... HACEK #Organisms #Endocarditis
Infective Endocarditis - Indications for Surgery - "Fun-HEARTS" Mnemonic

Fungal endocarditis
Heart failure (valve dysfunction)
Enterococcus (VRE) endocarditis
Abscess, annular
Infective Endocarditis ... Mnemonic Fungal endocarditis ... Enterococcus (VRE) endocarditis ... / pSeudomonas endocarditis ... cardiothoracic #cardiology #infectiousdiseases
Mitral Valve Vegetation Echocardiogram
Juicy vegetation on a mitral valve.

31% S. Aureus (IVDUs, IV lines)
17% Strep viridans
11%
Mitral Valve Vegetation ... vegetation on a mitral ... @MedCrisis #Mitral ... #Vegetation #Endocarditis