Rheumatic & Infective Endocarditis

1.Explain the etiopathogenesis, clinical features, morphologic features and complications of Rheumatic heart disease

2.Discuss aetio-pathogenesis, pathologic lesions, laboratory diagnosis and complications of Rheumatic Heart Disease

3.Define infective endocarditis. Describe etiopathogenesis, morphology and complications of infective endocarditis

4.Define rheumatic fever. Describe the etiopathogenesis and pathology of rheumatic heart disease

1.Vegetation’s of the heart

2.Describe the autopsy findings in lungs and heart in a 40-year-old male with longstanding rheumatic heart disease with mitral stenosis

1.Morphology of heart in rheumatic fever

2.Sub-acute bacterial endocarditis

3.Vegetations in bacterial endocarditis

1.Aschoff nodule

2.Aschoff body is seen in ……………… disease

3.Describe the cardiac vegetations in infective endocarditis

4.Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses are seen in ………………

5.What is Aschoff body. In which condition do you see

6.Rheumatic carditis

7.Vegetations of heart valves

8.Aschoff’s body Answer in single sentence: (4x½=2)

1.Duke’s criteria is often used in the diagnosis

• a) Infective endocarditis
• b) Rheumatic Heart Disease
• c) Cardiomyopathy
• d) Ischaemic Heart disease

2.Hemorrhagic pericardial effusion is seen in

• a) Infective endocarditis
• b) Metastatic carcinoma
• c) Acute myocarcial infection
• d) Rheumatic heart fever