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Updated (2023) Modified Duke Criteria for Infective Endocarditis: Infective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening condition and the Duke criteria (established in 1994 and revised in 2000) has been fundamental for the diagnosis of the disease. However, the landscape of micro-biology, diagnostics, epidemiology, and treatment for lE has evolved ...
Infective endocarditis is an infection of the inner surface of the heart, usually the valves. [3] Symptoms may include fever, small areas of bleeding into the skin, heart murmur, feeling tired, and low red blood cells. [3] Complications may include valvular insufficiency, heart failure, stroke, and kidney failure. [4] [3]
Symptoms of the acute coronary syndromes are similar. [8] The cardinal symptom of critically decreased blood flow to the heart is chest pain, experienced as tightness, pressure, or burning. [9] Localization is most commonly around or over the chest and may radiate or be located to the arm, shoulder, neck, back, upper abdomen, or jaw. [9]
Subacute bacterial endocarditis; Other names: Endocarditis lenta: Vegetation of tricuspid valve by ECHO: Specialty: Cardiology Symptoms: Malaise, weakness [1] Causes: Streptococcus mutans, mitis, sanguis or milleri bacteria [2] [3] Diagnostic method: Blood culture specimens over 24-hour period/analysis [4] Treatment: Intravenous penicillin [2]
Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), or ischemic heart disease (IHD), [13] is a type of heart disease involving the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to a build-up of atheromatous plaque in the arteries of the heart.
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is an independent non-profit, non-governmental professional association that works to advance the prevention, diagnosis and management of diseases of the heart and blood vessels, and improve scientific understanding of the heart and vascular system. [2]
[3] 10–25% of endocarditis patients will have Osler's nodes. [4] Other signs of endocarditis include Roth's spots and Janeway lesions. The latter, which also occur on the palms and soles, can be differentiated from Osler's nodes because they are non-tender. [2] Osler's nodes can also be seen in Systemic lupus erythematosus; Marantic endocarditis
Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) is a form of endocarditis in which small sterile vegetations are deposited on the valve leaflets. Formerly known as marantic endocarditis , which comes from the Greek marantikos , meaning "wasting away". [ 1 ]