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Infective endocarditis Clinical case Woman 38 years-old Heart failure Sepsis Clinical case vegetations Definition Infective endocarditis is serious infection of the valvular and mural endocardium caused by different forms of microorganisms and is characterized by typical infected and friable vegetations. Etiology bacteria (bacterial endocarditis ) streptococci and staphylococci fungi rickettsiae chlamydia Pathogenesis conditions initiating transient bacteraemia or septicaemia underlying he