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Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Endocarditis Summary ... Atrial myxoma • Hypercoagulable ... Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis ... #Endocarditis ... #diagnosis #management
Non-Infective Endocarditis - Pathophysiology
Non-infective Endocarditis Pathophysiology:
 • Valves usually undamaged - Etiology poorly understood but thought
Non-Infective Endocarditis ... Non-infective Endocarditis ... Carcinomatosis → Hypercoagulable ... rare Infective Endocarditis ... #NonInfective #Endocarditis
Stroke Etiologies
Hemorrhagic (IPH, SAH)
Ischemic
 - Large Vessel Atherosclerosis
 - Cardioembolic: Atrial fib, prosthetic valves, LV aneurysm,
, LV aneurysm, Endocarditis ... - Cryptogenic: Hypercoagulable
Infective Endocarditis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Pearls:
 - Consider non-infectious endocarditis in pts with cancer/SLE and
Infective Endocarditis ... Diagnosis and Management ... non-infectious endocarditis ... #Infective #Endocarditis ... #Diagnosis #Management
Differentiating NBTE from Infective Endocarditis
No pathognomonic signs/symptoms or echo features that are specific to NBTE, and
from Infective Endocarditis ... Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis ... ), Malignancy, Hypercoagulable ... Features of Infective Endocarditis ... #NonInfective #Endocarditis
A primer on the causes, evaluation and management of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Young Patients. 
Obstructive:
evaluation and management ... Recreational Drug Use • Hypercoagulable
Endocarditis - Organisms
#Diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases #Endocarditis #HACEK #Typical #Organisms
Endocarditis - Organisms ... InfectiousDiseases #Endocarditis
Antithrombotic Therapy in Patients with Prosthetic Heart Valves - INR Targets
Mechanical Valve - Duration Lifelong
INR 3.0:
LV dysfunction, hypercoagulable ... LV dysfunction, hypercoagulable
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 ... Mnemonic #Infective #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 ... HACEK #Organisms #Endocarditis