Duke Criteria For Endocarditis

Duke Criteria For Endocarditis

Question. Describe the clinical diagnosis of subacute bacterial endocarditis. How will you confim diagnosis?
Or
Write short note on diagnosis of infective endocarditis.

Answer. For clinical diagnosis of subacute bacterial endocarditis,there is a criteria given by Duke, i.e. Duke’s criteria.

Duke’s criteria for clinical diagnosis of sabe

Duke Criteria for Endocarditis: Diagnosis and Application

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Major criteria subacute bacterial endocarditis

1. Blood culture: Positive blood culture with typical infective endocarditis microorganisms (Viridans streptococci, S. bovis, HAECK group or community acquired S. aureus orenterococci)
2. Endocardial involvement: New regurgitation murmur,positive ECG for SABE.

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Minor criteria subacute bacterial endocarditis

1. Predisposing cardiac or IV drug abuse.
2. Fever
3. Vascular phenomenon: Emboli, mycotic aneurysms, petechiae
4. Immunologic phenomenon: Glomerulonephritis and rheumatoid factor.
5. Echocardiogram: Consistent with infective endocarditis, but not meeting major criteria.
6. Microbiology: Positive blood cultures, but not meeting major criteria, serological evidence of active infection with possible microorganisms.

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Confimation of Diagnosis subacute bacterial endocarditis

The confimation is of three types, i.e:

1. Definite:

1. Pathology or bacteriology of vegetations.
   Or
2. Both major criteria
   Or
3. One major and three minor criteria
   Or
4. Five minor criteria

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2. Possible:

Neither defiite nor rejected

3. Rejected:

1. Firm alternative diagnosis
   Or
2. Resolution on less than four days of antibiotics.