Today at work we admitted a patient that had a massive heart attack. No this patient wa snot overweight or had high blood pressure. This patient had a tooth abcess that was left untreated and it developed in to a condition called endocarditis.
This patient had developed a streptococcus infection that had went in to his bloodstream and develop vegetations or infectious emboli on his valves.
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