Clinica

Question 1

% Fever

Answer 1

Up to 90% of patients present with fever, often associated with systemic symptoms of chills, poor appetite, and weight loss

Question 2

murmurs are found in up to

Answer 2

85% of patients

Question 3

vascular and immunological phenomena such as

Answer 3

splinter haemorrhages, Roth spots, and glomerulonephritis remain common, and emboli to the brain, lung or spleen occur in 30% of patients and are often the presenting feature.
All these are increasingly uncommon, as patients gen- erally present at an early stage of the disease