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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Maliha Shakil, M.D. [2]
Overview
Common risk factors for endocarditis include prosthetic heart valves, valvular heart disease, congenital heart disease, intravenous drug use, age-related degenerative valvular lesions, immunosuppression, and colon cancer.[1]
Risk Factors
Common risk factors in the development of infective endocarditis are:[1]
- Prosthetic heart valves
- Valvular heart disease (mitral valve prolapse is the most common valvular lesion that predisposes to endocarditis)[2]
- Intravenous drug abuse
- Intracardiac devices, such as implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
- Age-related degenerative valvular lesions
- Hemodialysis
- Congenital heart disease
- History of rheumatic heart disease
- Diabetes mellitus
- HIV/AIDS
- Immunosuppression
- Colon cancer
Common risk factors in the development of nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis include:[3]
- Hypercoagulable state such as pregnancy and systemic bacterial infection
- Malignancy especially mucin-producing adenocarcinomas (most commonly associated with pancreatic adenocarcinomas)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Trauma (e.g., catheters)
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Infective endocarditis. Wikipedia (2015). URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infective_endocarditis#Pathogenesis Accessed on September 22, 2015
- ↑ Mylonakis E, Calderwood SB (2001). "Infective endocarditis in adults". N Engl J Med. 345 (18): 1318–30. doi:10.1056/NEJMra010082. PMID 11794152.
- ↑ Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis. Wikipedia (2015). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonbacterial_thrombotic_endocarditis Accessed on September 23, 2015
- ↑ Baddour, LM.; Wilson, WR.; Bayer, AS.; Fowler, VG.; Bolger, AF.; Levison, ME.; Ferrieri, P.; Gerber, MA.; Tani, LY. (2005). "Infective endocarditis: diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, and management of complications: a statement for healthcare professionals from the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and the Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Stroke, and Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, American Heart Association: endorsed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America". Circulation. 111 (23): e394–434. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.165564. PMID 15956145. Unknown parameter
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