Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Infective endocarditis

              Patient usually come recurrent history of fever, tired, night sweat, athralgia, weight loss. May or may not have history of  rheumatic history. Sign: splinter heamorrhage, janeway lesion, osler node, roth spot (heamorrhage, pale at the centre), splenomegally.

duke's criteria: ( 2 majors, 1 mojar and 3 minors or 5 minors)

Major Criteria:

a) positive blood culture (3/4 consequtive blood culture, typical organism

b) positive echo finding (new murmur, vegetation

Minor Criteria:

1) risk factor: IVDU, prosthetic valve, rhematic fever.

2) fever 38'C

3) evidence of vasculitis lesion: (splinter heamorage, optic??,JL)

4) blood culture that not meet criteria

5) echo finding that not meet criteria 

Investigation:

FBC, renal function, blood culture, ESR, urine (microscopic heamaturia), echo, ECG, TB workup (if suspected), 

complication:

a) emboli

b) CF, heart block.

management:

abx (4-6w)

strep : penicillin G and iv gentamicin. staphy (cloxacillin or vancomycin), culture negative of native valve: (penicillin G and Iv gentamiccin)

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