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Modified Duke's Criteria For Infective Endocarditis - Mnemonic - Epomedicine
Modified Duke's Criteria For Infective Endocarditis - Mnemonic - Epomedicine
A. Major Criteria
1. Blood culture positive
2. Evidence of Endocardial involvement
B. Minor criteria
Definitive Infective Endocarditis (IE)
Possible Infective Endocarditis (IE)
2 (major) + 0 (minor) or
1 (major) + 3 (minor) or
0 (major) + 5 (minor)
A. Major Criteria
B. Minor criteria
1. Fever > 38ºc
2. Immunologic phenomena (glomerulonephritis, Osler’s
nodes, Roth’s spots, Rheumatoid factor)
3. Vascular phenomena (major arterial emboli, septic
pulmonary infarcts, mycotic aneurysm, intracranial
hemorrhage, conjuntival hemorrhage, Janeway lesions)
4. (Echocardiography minor criteria eliminated)
5. Predisposition (heart condition or IV drug user)
6. Microbiologic evidence (Positive blood culture but not
meeting major criteria or serologic evidence of active
infection with organism consistet with IE)
Clinical criteria:
2 Major OR
1 Major + 3 Minor
5 Minor
3 Minor