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What is Infective endocarditis can manifest as all except - and explain in detail?
Infected thrombi* or vegetations* are the characteristic pathological features of infective endocarditis.
Vegetations are found along the valve cusps.
They art friable*, bulky* and potentially destructive*.
Sometimes they erode into the underlying myocardium to produce an abscess cavity (ring abscess)*.
Major cardiac complications in infective endocarditis ;
Valvular damage causing insufficiency or stenosis*
Myocardial ring abscess*.
Perforation of aorta, interventricular septum or free wall or invasion of the conduction system*.
Suppurative pericarditis*.
Endocarditis can also complicate artificial valve, causing their partial dehiscence with para valvular leak*