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Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Hypercoagulable (APLAS) Microbiology ... Tropheryma Whipplei • Aspergillus ... night sweats, fever ... Persistent bacteremia/fevers ... #diagnosis #management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
respiratory symptoms • Fever ... • Cough, fever ... ASPERGILLOSIS • Aspergillus ... arthritis, and endocarditis ... #Diagnosis #Management