Recently, many people develop fever, it is easy to doubt whether they are infected with H1N1 Type A influenza, which, Nanfang Hospital, Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor Zou Xiaoming reminded in accordance with clinical experience in patients with fever, in which case not to overlook the heart membrane may be infected.

said Professor Zou Xiaoming, infective endocarditis mainly bacteria, fungi cause of. These bacteria, fungi, as blood to the heart of endometrial cycle, causing endocardial infection, resulting in the formation of cardiac valve vegetation and damage to valve function, thus giving rise to recurrent fever, cough , cardiac dysfunction and even heart failure. In severe cases, the disease is often associated with renal dysfunction or renal failure, systemic multiple organ dysfunction, a serious threat to patient safety.

Professor Zou Xiaoming cautioned that the following measures can help patients receive timely diagnosis: First, cardiac auscultation, to understand whether the heart murmur. The second is the heart of color Doppler ultrasound examination to find out whether the heart valve vegetations, valvular insufficiency and whether or not broken. Third, check the blood culture, the best blood in the heat several times for blood culture, to understand whether the positive flow of pathogens will help the diagnosis. Of infective endocarditis diagnosed with cardiac valve disease in patients sensitive to antibiotics should be selected to control infection, improve the general situation, to correct heart failure, renal failure and other serious complications of cardiac surgery in time to remove infected heart lesions for valve replacement.