Noninfective endocarditis refers to formation of sterile platelet and fibrin thrombi on cardiac valves and adjacent endocardium in response to trauma, circulating immune complexes, vasculitis, or a hypercoagulable state. Symptoms are those of systemic arterial embolism. Diagnosis is by echocardiography and negative blood cultures.

In the NIDUS registry we defined heart failure as echocardiographic or clinical symptoms at admission. In addition, 228 (6.4%) of patients developed heart failure as a complication during the course of the disease.

Jul 6, 2022 · Arteriovenous malformation (AVM): An AVM is a tangle of arteries and veins that connect incorrectly. Instead of connecting to capillaries, the arteries pump blood directly into the veins through a cluster of channels called a nidus. AVMs can affect your brain or spine.

Sep 30, 2024 · Infective endocarditis (IE) arises when an adherent platelet-fibrin nidus becomes secondarily infected and produces vegetations, which in turn may directly damage the endocardial tissue and/or valves. The pathogenesis of infective endocarditis will be reviewed here.

The heart team assured full understanding of treatment options to reduce patient risk. • Right-side endocarditis caused by retained TEPW was treated without redo sternotomy. Introduction. Temporary epicardial pacing wires (TEPWs) are often placed at the completion of cardiac surgery.

Apr 1, 2022 · Infective endocarditis is an infection of the cardiovascular endothelium and occurs on heart valves, in the cardiac chambers or on the intimal surface of blood vessels. It is a rare but deadly disease and is often difficult to diagnose and as a result has a high mortality.

Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy (TKC) also called transient apical ballooning and stress cardiomyopathy is a condition with transient, acute stress-induced, reversible heart failure most commonly seen in post-menopausal women.

Mitral annular calcification (MAC) is a chronic degenerative process within the cardiac fibrous skeleton that bears similarities to valvular and vascular calcification. 1 It is commonly encountered on echocardiography, particularly in the elderly 2 and those with renal dysfunction. 3 The prevalence of MAC has been reported to be between 8% and 1...

Aims: The NatIonal Danish endocarditis stUdieS (NIDUS) registry aims to investigate the mechanisms contributing to the increasing incidence of infective endocarditis (IE) and to discover risk factors associated to the course, treatment and clinical outcomes of the disease.

Similarly, calcium-phosphate deposition in aortic heart valves causes aortic valve insufficiency and is mediated by vascular interstitial cells that create the nidus for calcium-phosphate crystals in the extracellular space.