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Duke's Criteria for Infective Endocarditis
Definite IE - Pathologic Criteria:
 • Pathologic lesions - vegetation or intracardiac
Endocarditis Definite ... Pathologic lesions - vegetation ... histology of a vegetation ... involvement - Echocardiogram ... diagnosis #major
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Suspect: Clinical ... Differential Diagnosis ... Serositis: • Pleural/pericardial ... • Libman-Sacks endocarditis ... Cardiac valve vegetations
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Major blood ... clinical forms: ... Inhalation of spores ... count (mainly lymphocytes ... arthritis, and endocarditis