What Is Endocarditis?
6. Complications
The standard symptoms of endocarditis should be taken very seriously, but the condition can usually be treated. The condition will sometimes go on to develop more serious complications, however. Such complication tends to involve what are known as vegetations, which are accumulations of cell fragments and bacteria on the endocardium.
These vegetations will sometimes break away from the endocardium and make their way to other parts of the body where they can cause potentially severe problems. They can end up causing problems in other organs, potentially causing symptoms such as heart failure, seizures, kidneys damage, paralysis, pulmonary embolisms, and strokes.
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