4 results
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
dental procedure • Cardiac ... Involves aortic and mitral ... Libman Sacks) • Atrial ... : • New cardiac ... Endocarditis #diagnosis #management
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

Symptoms:
• Palpitations, light-headedness, dizziness, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope, syncope.

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Cardiac: • Valvular ... ventricular hypertrophy, pericardial ... thrombus • Digoxin ... Moderate or severe mitral ... AFib #diagnosis #management
Marantic Endocarditis 

Epidemiology:
 - Incidence of non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (marantic endocarditis if associated with cancer) is
Incidence of non-bacterial ... signs/syrnptoms of embolic ... revealed 19% had cardiac ... vegetations on mitral ... Endocarditis #Diagnosis #Management
Causes of Renal Infarction - Differential Diagnosis
Thrombosis: Spontaneous
 • Atherosclerotic disease of aorta and renal artery
Cardiac source ... : Atrial fibrillation ... endocarditis, Marantic ... infarction with mural ... thrombi: Left atrial