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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Maliha Shakil, M.D. [2]

Overview

Risk factors for endocarditis include prosthetic heart valves, valvular heart disease, congenital heart disease, intravenous drug use, age-related degenerative valvular lesions, immunosuppression, and colon cancer.[1]

Risk Factors

Common risk factors in the development of infective endocarditis are:[1]

Common risk factors in the development of non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis are:[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Infective endocarditis. Wikipedia (2015). URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infective_endocarditis#Pathogenesis Accessed on September 22, 2015
  2. Mylonakis E, Calderwood SB (2001). "Infective endocarditis in adults". N Engl J Med. 345 (18): 1318–30. doi:10.1056/NEJMra010082. PMID 11794152.
  3. Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis. Wikipedia (2015). URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonbacterial_thrombotic_endocarditis Accessed on September 23, 2015

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