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Are there other ailments that can produce the same symptoms as endocarditis? what are they? does endocarditis cause you to feel weak?

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Nonspecific symptoms: The nonspecific symptoms like feeling weak, could be caused by any disease, do you have predisposing factors to make you think in endocarditis? In patients with bacterias in the blood, which is one of the tests made for diagnosing endocarditis, could be cause by other disease like: Hematogenous osteomyelitis, Prosthetic joint infection, Septic thrombophlebitis, Cardiac device infection.

Answered 7/8/2019

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