An IV drug abuser has been diagnosed with infective endocarditis
He is in the emergency department reporting increasing shortness of breath, rapid breathing, chest pain that worsens with breathing, and coughing up blood. The health care provider recognizes this may be caused by:
A) Vegetative emboli traveling in the blood stream to the lungs
B) Blood clots in the left ventricle traveling through the aorta
C) Microemboli being developed in the carotids by Staphylococcus epidermidis
D) Infarction of the tissue surrounding the endocardium of the heart
Ans: A
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The client is exhibiting signs of pulmonary emboli. The infectious loci continuously release bacteria into the bloodstream and are a source of persistent bacteremia, sometimes contributing to pericarditis. As the lesions grow, they cause valve destruction and dysfunction such as regurgitation, ring abscesses with heart block, and perforation. The loose organization of these lesions permits the organisms and fragments of the lesions to form emboli and travel in the bloodstream, causing cerebral, systemic, or pulmonary emboli. If clots are in the left ventricle, they will travel to the brain or kidneys. If emboli are located in the carotids, they will travel to the brain tissue. Infarction of heart tissue will exhibit signs of a myocardial infarction, not pulmonary emboli.
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