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    1. Endocarditis is a microbial infection of the endothelial surface of the heart. It occurs most often in people with prosthetic heart valves, structural cardiac defects, or those who are older with low immunity. 2. People at high risk include those with prosthetic heart valves, a history of bacterial endocarditis, or congenital heart defects. People at moderate risk have conditions like degenerative valve disease or repaired congenital defects. 3. Endocarditis usually has an insidious onset, with signs and symptoms developing from the toxic effects of the infection, destruction of heart valves, and embolization of vegetative growths on the heart.

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    1. Endocarditis is a microbial infection of the endothelial surface of the heart. It occurs most often in people with prosthetic heart valves, structural cardiac defects, or those who are older with low immunity. 2. People at high risk include those with prosthetic heart valves, a history of bacterial endocarditis, or congenital heart defects. People at moderate risk have conditions like degenerative valve disease or repaired congenital defects. 3. Endocarditis usually has an insidious onset, with signs and symptoms developing from the toxic effects of the infection, destruction of heart valves, and embolization of vegetative growths on the heart.

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    1. Endocarditis is a microbial infection of the endothelial surface of the heart. It occurs most often in people with prosthetic heart valves, structural cardiac defects, or those who are older with low immunity. 2. People at high risk include those with prosthetic heart valves, a history of bacterial endocarditis, or congenital heart defects. People at moderate risk have conditions like degenerative valve disease or repaired congenital defects. 3. Endocarditis usually has an insidious onset, with signs and symptoms developing from the toxic effects of the infection, destruction of heart valves, and embolization of vegetative growths on the heart.

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    SUMMER ASSIGNMENT NSC 412 NSC/04/055 ENDOCARDITIS This is a microbial finfection of the endothial surface of the heat.

    Occurs mostly in people with prosthetic head values, structural cardiac defects & more common in older people, who have low immune, metabolic alterations associated with aging. People at high risk are: 1. Prosthetic cardiac values 2. History of bacterial endocarditis 3. Patent ductus arteriosis 4. Aortic value dixases etc. People at moderate risk are: 1. Degenerative value disease 2. hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 3. Most congenital Cardiac Malformations 4. Repaired Patent ductus Arterosis etc. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Usually, its onset is incidious, its signs & symptoms develop from the toxic effect of the infection, destruction of the heart values and from embolization of fragments of vegetative growths on the heart.

    A deformity or injury of the endocardium leads to accumulation on the endocardium of fibin & platelets & clot formation infections organisms (streptococci, staphylococci, enterococci pneumococci) invade the clot & endocardial lesion. As the clot continues to expard on the endocardial the infecting organism is covered by the new clot & concealed from the bodys normal denfense. this infection may erode through the en

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