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Endocarditis

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This is the inflammation of the endothelium which lines the myocardium and the heart valves.

The main types of endocarditis are:

  • infective endocarditis
  • endocarditis associated with rheumatic fever
  • nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis
  • Libman-Sacks endocarditis

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