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Aortic and Mitral Valve Vegetations in Endocarditis on POCUS - PLAX

Why would this 30 y/o male
Aortic and Mitral ... Valve Vegetations ... mitral valves and ... #Mitral #Valve ... #cardiology
Summary table of heart murmurs associated with mitral and aortic valve diseases as well as their
associated with mitral ... and aortic valve ... their signs and symptoms ... #diagnosis #heart ... #cardiology #comparison
Differentiating NBTE from Infective Endocarditis
No pathognomonic signs/symptoms or echo features that are specific to NBTE, and
pathognomonic signs/symptoms ... false-negative results: vegetation ... already embolised, Vegetations ... dysfunction common, Aortic ... infective #NBTE #Marantic
Marantic Endocarditis 

Epidemiology:
 - Incidence of non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (marantic endocarditis if associated with cancer) is
Marantic Endocarditis ... with no signs/syrnptoms ... on mitral and aortic ... #Endocarditis #Diagnosis ... #Management #Cardiology
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
CA • Involves aortic ... and mitral regurgitation ... block, annular or aortic ... -mm left sided vegetations ... #management #cardiology
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
Ovarian CA, involves aortic ... and mitral regurgitation ... block, annular or aortic ... -mm left sided vegetations ... #cardiology #infectiousdiseases
Causes of Primary and Functional Mitral Regurgitation (MR) 
Causes of primary mitral regurgitation
 - Rheumatic heart
- Rheumatic heart ... - Infective/marantic ... Vegetations seen ... valve - Secondary ... #Cardiology
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
failure • Mitral ... valve prolapse ... disease (e.g., aortic ... AVNRT Red Flag Symptoms ... #Palpitations #Cardiology