Most Common Valve affected in InfectiveEndocarditis is?

[voicesinmyhead]

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I thought the MC site of IE was Mitral valve for normal (non IVDU) patients, followed by Aortic valve?

medscape says its Aortic valve.
http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/420506


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[SpecterGT260]

We had learned that MV > AoV. IIRC, UWorld answers their questions this way.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2208/

This article says that tricuspid is most common on the whole due to IVDU, and the boards like to test it this way as well. I really doubt you will be asked in such a way that you absolutely have to choose between the mitral or the aortic without any other information given to you at all (i.e. based on sheer statistics alone). They will likely give you a murmur in the history or say something about drug use in order to help you localize the valve.

 

[voicesinmyhead]

Thanks man. Why doesnt SDN have a rep system so that i can give you some points? 🙂

 

[Hemichordate]

Is there info on the most common type of MV pathology (regurg, stenosis, prolapse) seen in IE?