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Mitral Valve Vegetations in Endocarditis - POCUS Echocardiogram

Apical 4-chamber view, a mobile echogenic mass is seen
Mitral Valve Vegetations ... on size of the vegetation ... sensitive for vegetations ... #Valve #Vegetations ... clinical #cardiology #a4c
Mitral Valve Endocarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram

This patient underwent septal myectomy and MV replacement

- Abhilash Koratala MD
Mitral Valve Endocarditis ... on POCUS Echocardiogram ... @NephroP #Mitral ... #Vegetations #POCUS ... clinical #cardiology #A4C
Mitral Valve Endocarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram
2 months of 'FUO'

- Dr. Ernest Fischer @EAFischer

#Mitral #Valve #Endocarditis #Vegetations
Mitral Valve Endocarditis ... on POCUS Echocardiogram ... @EAFischer #Mitral ... #Vegetations #POCUS ... clinical #cardiology #a4c
This massive burden of tricuspid valve vegetation was caught in a young patient with septic shock.
tricuspid valve vegetation ... Echo ALL shock patients ... Echocardiogram #A4C ... #Tricuspid #Vegetation ... #Endocarditis
Mitral Valve Endocarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram
66 yo presents with petechiae to lower extremities. Pt had mitral
Mitral Valve Endocarditis ... Pt had mitral valve ... Here you see a vegetation ... #MitralValve #Endocarditis ... clinical #cardiology #a4c
Tricuspid Vegetations in Endocarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram (s4c)
There are times you do a bedside echo on
Tricuspid Vegetations ... on POCUS Echocardiogram ... you do a bedside echo ... TV #Tricuspid #Vegetations ... POCUS #Echocardiogram
Tricuspid regurgitation is present on this subxiphoid view of a patient diagnosed with endocarditis. If you
view of a patient diagnosed ... you can see the vegetation ... #Endocarditis #Vegetation ... echocardiogram #ultrasound #POCUS ... #S4C
Marantic Endocarditis 

Epidemiology:
 - Incidence of non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (marantic endocarditis if associated with cancer) is
revealed 19% had cardiac ... valvular vegetations ... irregularly shaped vegetations ... on mitral and aortic ... Vegetations mostly
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Involves aortic and mitral ... formation • Other vegetations ... Diagnosis? ... cultures • 2D Echo ... -mm left sided vegetations
Causes of mitral stenosis
Rheumatic heart disease
 - Most common cause worldwide. Commissural fusion, thick MV leaflets
Causes of mitral ... Commissural fusion ... disease Infective endocarditis ... (vegetations)/tumor ... stenosis #Causes #diagnosis