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Diastolic murmurs?

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indicate mitral or tricuspid stenosis; or aortic/pulmonary incompetance

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Systolic murmurs?

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indicate mitral or tricuspid incompetance; or aortic/pulmonary stenosis

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Developmental defects of connective tissue?

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stenosis of pulmonary or aortic, leaflet abnormalities, floppy mitral valve

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Dystrophic calcification?

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injured tissue developing calcium deposits, can travel e.g. annular calcification of mitral valve, stenosis of aortic valve

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Acute Endocarditis?

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high virulence organism (e.g. Staph Aureus), prev. normal valve, destructive, high mortality)

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Sub-acute endocarditis?

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low virulence organism (e.g. Strep viridans), prev. abnormal valve, insidious

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Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis?

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deposition of fibrin/platelets on heart valves, no pathogens, possible occurance during hypercoagulable state e.g. cancer

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Carcinoid tumours?

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tumours from neuroendocrine cells, form plaque-like thickening of right heart containing smooth m. - affects tricuspid and pulmonary valve