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Acute endocarditis is a febrile illness that rapidly damages cardiac structures, seeds extracardiac sites hematogenously, and can progress to death within weeks. Subacute endocarditis follows an indolent course, rarely causes metastatic infection, and progresses gradually unless complicated by a major embolic event or a ruptured mycotic aneurysm.

Treatment: Endocarditis

For a more detailed discussion, see Karchmer AW: Infective Endocarditis, Chap. 155, p. 816, in HPIM-19.

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Section 7. Infectious Diseases