Pediatric infective endocarditis

Pediatric infective endocarditis (endocarditis) refers to endometrial inflammatory lesions caused by various reasons, often involving heart valves, but also involving ventricular septal defects, endocardium or open arterial catheters, arteriovenous fistulas According to the cause, it can be divided into two categories, infectious and non-infectious. Non-infective endocarditis includes: rheumatic endocarditis, rheumatoid endocarditis, systemic lupus erythematosus endocarditis, Acute symptomatic endocarditis in neonates, etc., mainly infective endocarditis is explained here. Infective endocarditis (infective endocarditis) used to be divided into acute and subacute types. Acute cases mostly occur in children without heart disease. The invasive bacteria have strong virulence, rapid onset, rapid progress, and the course of disease is within 6 weeks. Subacute patients are usually infected with weaker virulence bacteria on the basis of the original heart disease, the onset is latent, the progress is relatively slow, and the course of disease exceeds 6 weeks.

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