Heart Flashcards
What can cause Rheumatic fever?
Strep throat
What is interesting about the blood in Rh Fever?
Sterile
What are complications from Rh Fever?
Pancarditis
Aschoff Body
What valves are affected by chronic Rheumatic heart disease?
Mitral
or
Mitral and Aortic
What happens with Rh Heart Disease?
Scarring and calcification of valve leaflets and chordae
What is RHD a risk factor for?
Infective Endocarditis and thromboemboli
What is IE?
Infected thrombotic masses (vegetations) on endocardium
What causes subacute IE
Strep viridans
How does subacute IE progress?
Thrombi form on abnormal valves and are colonized by transient bacteremia
What is different about the leaflets of acute IE?
They were originally normal
What microbe causes Acute IE
Staph
Clincal signs of IE
fever, bacteremia, murmur, petechiae
What can degenerative clacific aortic stenosis cause?
Syncope
Angina
Heart failure
Endocarditis
What is mitral valve prolaspe?
A congenital defect resulting in a flappy mitral valve
What can a mural thrombi cause
Endocardial infarct caused by the fibrous material on inside or heart
