Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Infective endocarditis

Introduction endocarditis mainly for heart valve inflammation. Infectious and non-infectious (such as rheumatic, lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid) two categories. Clinical Infectious mainly, the majority of infections caused by bacteria, it also called bacterial endocarditis. Infective endocarditis according to the incidence basis of bacterial virulence, further divided into acute and subacute. However, since bacterial virulence and human resistance often contrast between individual differences, the same bacteria in different patients may have different clinical differences, coupled with the past few years, the widely used antibiotic. both clinical manifestations, he has no obvious limits, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between strict.

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