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1
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What is endocarditis until proven otherwise?

A

Fever and new murmur

2
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Why is endocarditis deadly?

A

Can cause end organ failure from emboli (heart, respiratory and kidney)

3
Q

Risk factors of endocarditis?

A
Previous rheumatic disease
Age related valvular degeneration
Prosthetic valve
IV drug use
Congenital heart disease
4
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Why is the normal immune response impaired?

A

Valve cusps are avascular

Protective layer of fibrin and platelets around vegetation means antibiotics can’t reach infection

5
Q

What can lead to organisms entering the blood stream?

A

Poor dental hygiene
IV drug use
Soft tissue infection
Pacemakers/cardiac surgery

6
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Name 10 acute signs and symptoms of endocarditis

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Fever
New murmur
Cardiac/renal failure
Rigors and night sweats
Splinter haemorrhages
Roth spots on retina
Cerebral embolic events (stroke/TIA)
Malaise
Breathlessness
7
Q

Name 5 subacute signs and symptoms of endocarditis

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Splenomegaly
Clubbing
Purpura
Osler's nodes (tender and 3D on fingers)
Janeway lesions (flat painless)
8
Q

How is endocarditis diagnosed?

A
Positive blood culture of typical pathogen
Vegetation/abscess seen on echo
New valvular regurgitation
\+ predisposing risk factors
\+fever>38º
Immunologic/embolic signs/events
Serology/abnormal culture
9
Q

Treatment of endocarditis?

A
IV antibiotics (liase with microbiology)
Monitor (kidneys, treatment, PR interval)
Surgeons? Intensive care?
10
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Complications of endocarditis?

A
Heart failure
Aortic root abscess
AV block
MI
Stroke/renal/splenic infarcts
Retinal artery occlusion
Acute limb ischaemia
PE
11
Q

Instead of emboli, what could cause the osler’s nodes, roth spots, splinter haemorrhages?

A

Immune complex formation

12
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Acute renal failure occurs because:

A
Immune complex and vasculitic glomerulonephritis
Septic emboli-> infarction
Heart failure-> haemodynamic impairment
Antibiotic toxicity
CT imaging nephrotoxicity
13
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What is an echocardiogram?

A

High frequency sound waves to generate images of the heart and detect blood flow within the cardiac chambers and blood vessels

14
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When would an echo be ordered

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To investigate cardiac symptoms (breathlessness, chest pain, palpitations)
Investigate signs (murmur, raised JVP, peripheral oedema)
Investigate unwell patient (MI, heart failure, rule out PE, aortic dissection, endocarditis)
15
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What is the colour on an echo?

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Colour doppler to assess flow

16
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What % of endocarditis is culture negative?

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30%

17
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What would you do if the culture came back negative?

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If pt on antibiotics, consider stopping them and repeating 3 sets of blood cultures
May have to off them for 7-10 days for +ve blood cultures

18
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What are other causes of endocarditis not usually picked up by blood culture?

A
HACEK organisms
Haemophilus
Aggregatibacter
Cardiobacterium
Eikenella
Kingella
19
Q

How would you treat HACEK endocarditis?

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Ceftriaxone or ciprofloxacin

20
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What would serology be looking for?

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Intracellular organisms:
Bartonella spp
Coxiella burnetii
Tropheryma whipplei
Mycoplasma spp
Legionalla spp
Brucella spp
21
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What are the most common organisms?

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Staph aureus
Streptococcus (coagulase negative/viridans/bovic/other)
Enterococcus
HACEK
Fungi/yeast
Polymicrobial
Culture negative
22
Q

Treatment for chronic endocarditis?

A

IV amoxicillin

23
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Treatment for sever sepsis endocarditis?

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Vancomycin + gentamicin

24
Q

Indication for endocarditis surgery?

A

Heart failure
Uncontrolled infection
Prevention of embolism

25
Q

Heart failure in endocarditis is caused by what?

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Mitral chordal rupture/leaflet formation
Vegetation obstructing closure
Intracardiac fistula

26
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What indicates uncontrolled infection in endocarditis and is an indication for surgery?

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Abscess, pseudoaneurysm, fistulae

27
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What does the surgical treatment of endocarditis aim to do?

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Debride infected tissue
Close cardiac defects
Repair valves/replace valves
Insert an aortic homograft in aortic root abscesses

28
Q

What is the mortality of surgery for endocarditis in native valves versus prosthetic valves

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5-10% native

10-20% prosthetic