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Can you get endocarditis from a dog bite on your hand!
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Depands: Endocarditis is what I call a domino event. First there are factors about the patient that makes them more likely to get it, like having abnormal heart valves or a hole in your heart. Then the bite must have a germ that gets past the bodies usual defenses (white cells and others) & enter the blood to travel to the heart. This is an unlikely sequence, but in medicine almost anything is possible.
Answered 7/5/2019
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