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  2. Infective endocarditis - Wikipedia

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    Infective endocarditis is associated with 18% in-hospital mortality. [24] However, adult patients with congenital heart disease can have relatively lower mortality down to 5% due to younger age, right-sided endocarditis and management by multidisciplinary teams. As many as 50% of people with infective endocarditis may experience embolic ...

  3. Subacute bacterial endocarditis - Wikipedia

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    Other strains of streptococci can cause subacute endocarditis as well. These include streptococcus intermedius, which can cause acute or subacute infection (about 15% of cases pertaining to infective endocarditis). [7] Enterococci from urinary tract infections and coagulase negative staphylococci can also be causative agents. [5]

  4. Wikipedia : Osmosis/Endocarditis

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    Infective endocarditis used to be classified into groups like acute and subacute based on how quickly the infection developed, but nowadays the key is to identify that microbial cause of infection and to treat it as effectively as possible. Viridans Streptococci is the most common cause.

  5. Endocarditis - Wikipedia

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    Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium.It usually involves the heart valves.Other structures that may be involved include the interventricular septum, the chordae tendineae, the mural endocardium, or the surfaces of intracardiac devices.

  6. Janeway lesion - Wikipedia

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    Janeway lesions are rare, non-tender, small erythematous or haemorrhagic macular, papular or nodular lesions on the palms or soles only a few millimeters in diameter that are associated with infective endocarditis and often indistinguishable from Osler's nodes. [1] [2]

  7. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    infective endocarditis: yellow-white spots in the myocardium Branham's sign: Henry Branham: vascular surgery, nephrology: chronic kidney disease, hemodialysis: pressing on proximal portion of AV fistula results in bradycardia Braxton Hicks contraction: John Braxton Hicks: obstetrics: normal pregnancy

  8. Pulmonary regurgitation - Wikipedia

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    More pronounced regurgitation that is noticed through a routine physical examination is a medical sign of disease and warrants further investigation. [ medical citation needed ] If it is secondary to pulmonary hypertension it is referred to as a Graham Steell murmur .

  9. HACEK organisms - Wikipedia

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    The HACEK organisms are a group of fastidious Gram-negative bacteria that are an unusual cause of infective endocarditis, which is an inflammation of the heart due to bacterial infection. [1] HACEK is an abbreviation of the initials of the genera of this group of bacteria: Haemophilus , Aggregatibacter (previously Actinobacillus ...