Pericarditis, Myocarditis, and Endocarditis

Question 1

What is infective endocarditis?

Answer 1

Microbial infection of the endocardium.
Left sided most common - Strptococci affects abnormal valves.
Right sided in IV drug use - S.aureus affects normal valves

Question 2

What is Peri-/myo-/endo-cariditis?

Answer 2

When the layers of the heart become inflamed

Question 3

What are signs of infective carditis?

Answer 3

As with heart failure and sepsis plus finger clubbing, splinter haemorrhages, Janeway lesions, Osler’s nodes, Roth’s spots

Question 4

What is Pericarditis and Myocarditis?

Answer 4

Inflammation involving the heart sac or heart muscle

Question 5

What are the causes of peri/myocarditis?

Answer 5

infection, uraemia, carcinoma, MI, post-surgery/drug use, connective tissue disease, radiation, idiopathic

Question 6

Signs and symptoms of peri/myocarditis

Answer 6

chest pain, heart failure

Question 7

what is the the treatment for peri-/myo-/endo-carditis?

Answer 7

anti-inflammatory drugs