The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by endocarditis (endocarditis):
Eyes and eye appendages (H00-H59).
- Retinal microemboli (retinal vascular occlusions; embolic in origin).
- Retinal hemorrhages (retinal hemorrhages).
Cardiovascular system (I00-I99)
- Bacterial microembolism – can cause infarction to any organ.
- Heart failure (cardiac insufficiency)
- Heart valve rupture
- Heart valve perforation
- Cardiac arrhythmia, unspecified
- Mycotic aneurysms (bulging of the arterial wall) in the arterial system; incidence 2-10% (→ mycotic coronary aneurysms (bulging of the coronary arteries); rare).
- Myocardial abscess – accumulation of pus in the heart muscle.
Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).
- Sepsis (blood poisoning)
Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99)
- Apoplexy (stroke) (in bacterial endocarditis).
- Embolic herd encephalitis – brain inflammation caused by pathogen dissemination.
Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).
- Splenomegaly (splenomegaly).
Genitourinary system (kidneys, urinary tract – reproductive organs) (N00-N99).
- Acute renal failure (ANV)* .
- Diffuse glomerulonephritis (inflammation of the renal corpuscles).
- Glomerular herd nephritis Löhlein* (synonym: Löhlein herd nephritis) – is a segmental glomerulonephritis occurring after prolonged bacterial endocarditis.
- Renal infarcts (embolic-related).
- Hematuria – blood in the urine, unspecified.
- Proteinuria – protein in the urine, unspecified.
* Ca. 6-30% of cases in endocarditis.
