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Question 1

MDx? Etiology?

A. Valvular endocarditis; septic thrombus

B. Mural endocarditis; uremia

C. valvular endocarditis; uremia

D. uremic endocarditis; renal failure

Answer 1

B.

The pathology of uremic endocarditis is that the thrombus forms attached to the wall of the atrium or ventricle as opposed to on the valves.

Question 2

MDx? Etiology?

A. Valvular endocarditis; septic thrombus

B. Vegetative endocarditis; septic thrombus

C. Valvular endocardiosis; septic thrombus

D. Valvular endocardiosis; congenital

E. More than one of the above…which ones?

Answer 2

E.

Valvular AKA vegetative or vegetative valvular;

these types of septic thrombi tend to deposit on the valve cusps as opposed to the walls of the endocardium.