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Common symptoms of endocarditis include:<ref name=abc> Infective endocarditis. Wikipedia (2015). URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infective_endocarditis#Pathogenesis Accessed on September 21, 2015</ref><ref name=endo> Endocarditis. Wikipedia (2015). URL= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocarditis Accessed on September 21, 2015</ref><ref name="pmid11830803">{{cite journal| author=Dhawan VK| title=Infective endocarditis in elderly patients. | journal=Clin Infect Dis | year= 2002 | volume= 34 | issue= 6 | pages= 806-12 | pmid=11830803 | doi=10.1086/339045 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=11830803 }} </ref> | |||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editors-in-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]
Overview
Common symptoms of endocarditis include fever, chills, anorexia, malaise, weight loss, and back pain.
Symptoms
Common symptoms of endocarditis include:[1][2][3]
- Fever
- Chills
- Anorexia
- Malaise
- Weight loss
- Back pain
- Flank pain due to renal embolization
- Stroke may be present in 10 - 15% of patients as a result of cerebral embolization
- Chest pain may be present as a result of embolization in the coronary artery. The infarcts are usually not transmural. Pulmonary emboli, often septic, occur in 75% of patients with tricuspid endocarditis.
- Abdominal pain may be present due to mesenteric embolization or ileus
- Blindness may be present due to retinal embolization in 3% of patients
History and Symptoms
Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis (SBE)
- Insidious onset
- Fever
- Sweats
- Weakness
- Myalgias
- Arthralgias
- Malaise
- Anorexia
- Fatigue
- Splenomegaly, clubbing, and Oslers nodes in long-standing SBE
Acute Bacterial Endocarditis
Endocarditis Associated with Parenteral Drug Use
- High fevers, chills, rigors, malaise, cough, and pleuritic chest pain
- Septic pulmonary emboli causing sputum production, hemoptysis, and signs suggesting pneumonia
- Cardiac murmurs
- Tricuspid insufficiency
- Metastatic infections such as renal or brain abscess
- Neurologic manifestations such as stroke, TIA, seizures
- Peripheral emboli
Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis
- Occurs in 1%–2% of cases at 1 yr and in 4%–5% of cases at 4 yr after implantation
- Infection of perivalvular tissues
- New symptoms consistent with valvular regurgitation such as shortness of breath
- Myocardial abscesses
- Fever
- Petechiae, Roth's spots, Osler's nodes, Janeway lesions
- Emboli
References
- ↑ Infective endocarditis. Wikipedia (2015). URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infective_endocarditis#Pathogenesis Accessed on September 21, 2015
- ↑ Endocarditis. Wikipedia (2015). URL= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocarditis Accessed on September 21, 2015
- ↑ Dhawan VK (2002). "Infective endocarditis in elderly patients". Clin Infect Dis. 34 (6): 806–12. doi:10.1086/339045. PMID 11830803.