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In a hospital cardiac care unit, there are three patients with different cardiac conditions: a 52-year-old man with dilated cardiomyopathy, an 18-year-old girl with mitral valve prolapse, and a 30-year-old man with infective endocarditis of the mitral valve. Which of the following features do all these patients most likely share?
a. Decreased compliance
b. Depressed myocardial contractility
c. Infectious etiology
d. Mitral valve stenosis
e. Risk of systemic thromboembolism
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i think e --is probability in all of them
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answer is C. Strep Pyogenes could cause all of them.Some patients develop significant carditis which manifests as congestive heart failure. This requires the usual treatment for heart failure: diuretics and digoxin. Unlike normal heart failure, rheumatic heart failure responds well to corticosteroids.
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can u tell us the answer /?
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Systemic thromboembolism may develop in each of these patients. Vegetations associated with infective endocarditis may undergo fragmentation and result in systemic thromboembolism. Stasis develops in dilated ventricles, which predisposes to formation of thrombi attached to the ventricular walls (mural thrombi). Mural thrombi may also form within the left atrium in the presence of mitral valve prolapse. Thromboemboli may originate from mural thrombi.
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Of the three conditions in the question stem, only infective endocarditis is definitely related to an infectious etiology, usually bacteria. Recall that mitral valve prolapse is due to myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve, sometimes associated with Marfan syndrome. The etiology of dilated cardiomyopathy is heterogeneous, and most cases are idiopathic. Of the remaining cases, viral infections, toxic insults (especially alcohol), metabolic disorders (hemochromatosis), pregnancy, and genetic influences are the underlying causes.
