RT Book, Section
A1 Karchmer, Adolf W.
A2 Kasper, Dennis L.
A2 Fauci, Anthony S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141405951
T1 INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
T2 Harrison's Infectious Diseases, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259835971
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141405951
RD 2024/04/24
AB The  prototypic  lesion  of  infective  endocarditis,  the  vegetation(Fig.  24-1),  is  a  mass  of  platelets,  fibrin,  microcolonies  of  microorganisms,  and  scant  inflammatory  cells.  Infection  most  commonly  involves  heart  valves  but  may  also  occur  on  the  low-pressure  side  of  a  ventricular  septal  defect,  on  mural  endocardium  damaged  by  aberrant  jets  of  blood  or  foreign  bodies,  or  on  intracardiac  devices  themselves.  The  analogous  process  involving  arteriovenous  shunts,  arterio-arterial  shunts  (patent  ductus  arteriosus),  or  a  coarctation  of  the  aorta  is  called  infective  endarteritis.