Valvular Heart Disease

• Shashi ’Big 4’ Valvular Diseases Summary
• how does RHD vs IE vs NBTE affect the heart valves?

Infective Endocarditis

• what is IE?
• what is the aetiology?
• what are the risk factors?
• what are the clinical features?
• compare the features of SBE and ABE?
• how does SBE present in RHD?
• what are the macroscopic features?

Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis

• what is the pathogenesis of NBTE?
• what is the pathogenesis of Libman-Sacks endocarditis?

Endocardial Fibrosis

• what is endocardial fibrosis?
• what causes right vs left-sided endocardial fibrosis?
• what are the macroscopic features of endocardial fibrosis?