Patients were excluded due to age 60 years, pregnancy, heart or brain disease unrelated to SLE, atrial fibrillation or flutter, cardiomyopathy, intracardiac thrombi, drug abuse, renal dysfunction, difficult venous access, self-withdrawal or noncompliance [imaging.onlinejacc.org]

organ dysfunction syndrome, and much more. [books.google.com]

Fred Ferri’s popular "5 books in 1" format provides quick guidance on menorrhagia, Failure to Thrive (FTT), Cogan’s syndrome, and much more. [books.google.com]

Valvular heart disease is relatively rising in both congenital and acquired cases, but the autoimmune endocarditis remains rare. [actamedindones.org]

Disease Valvular heart disease is a well-recognized cardiac manifestation in APS and SLE. [phaonlineuniv.org]

disease IV drug use immunosuppression prosthetic heart valve congenital heart disease Etiology Pathogenesis endothelial damage on the surface of the cardiac valve can cause a thrombus to form factors include turbulent blood flow that can damage endothelium [medbullets.com]

Discussion Valvular heart diseases are the most frequent and important cardiac manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus 4,8. [scielo.br]

Note also the thickened, shortened, and fused chordae tendineae that represent remote rheumatic heart disease. [library.med.utah.edu]

Fever and a heart murmur are sometimes present. Blood cultures Echocardiography Noninfective endocarditis should be suspected when chronically ill patients develop symptoms suggesting arterial embolism. [merckmanuals.com]

Also I'm not sure if the heart murmur was described, but this would be another way of ruling out stenosis over regurg This is how I think of why regurg stenosis: LSE buildup of gunk on leaflets, I shouldn't take much gunk buildup to WEIGH DOWN the leaflet [forums.studentdoctor.net]

murmur and Evidence of multiple systemic emboli Main differential diagnosis is Infective endocarditis - distinction is important Laboratory Exclude DIC: full blood count, prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, fibrinogen, thrombin time, D dimers [pathologyoutlines.com]

Therefore, people with severe heart murmurs should speak to their doctor about taking an antibiotic before receiving dental work. [hopkinslupus.org]

A previously healthy 14-year-old girl was found to have a heart murmur when examined during an episode of upper respiratory tract infection. [annalspc.com]

Online Video 1A 18 year old female with SLE and acute homonymous hemianopsia, confusional state, and cognitive dysfunction. [imaging.onlinejacc.org]

Online Video 1A 18 year old female with SLE and acute homonymous hemianopsia, confusional state, and cognitive dysfunction. [imaging.onlinejacc.org]

The features these patients exhibited in common were an arthritis of varying duration, the subsequent development of albuminuria of rather marked degree, nephrotic edema, subsequent renal insufficiency and, finally, a fatal outcome with the pathologic [jamanetwork.com]

In a study of 14 patients, focal white matter lesions and cerebral infarcts on pre-mortem MRI correlated highly with old and acute cerebral infarcts and microthromboemboli on histopathology (10). [imaging.onlinejacc.org]

(G and H) (H&E 40 and 100 , respectively) Old deeper (white matter) infarct with liquefactive necrosis, residual macrophages, and gliosis (arrows). (I) (H&E 100 ) Large cerebral vessel with fibrin thrombi (arrow). [imaging.onlinejacc.org]