Major criteria
1. Positive blood cultures (typical organism in 2 separate cultures or persistently +ve blood cultures)
2. Echocardiogram showing vegetation, abscess, dehiscence of prosthetic valve or new regurgitation
Minor criteria
1. Fever (>38)
2. Predisposition (IV drug user, cardiac lesion)
3. Vascular/immunological signs
4. Positive blood culture that does not meet major criteria
5. Positive echo that does not meet major criteria
Diagnosis requires 2 major or 1 major and 3 minor or all 5 minor
Signs and symptoms summarised 'FROM JANE'
Fever
Roth spots
Osler's nodes (Painful; men are rough)
Murmur
Janeway lesions (Painless, women are gentle)
Anaemia (Normocytic, normochromic)
Nail changes (Clubbing and splinter haemorrhages)
Emboli
1. Positive blood cultures (typical organism in 2 separate cultures or persistently +ve blood cultures)
2. Echocardiogram showing vegetation, abscess, dehiscence of prosthetic valve or new regurgitation
Minor criteria
1. Fever (>38)
2. Predisposition (IV drug user, cardiac lesion)
3. Vascular/immunological signs
4. Positive blood culture that does not meet major criteria
5. Positive echo that does not meet major criteria
Diagnosis requires 2 major or 1 major and 3 minor or all 5 minor
Signs and symptoms summarised 'FROM JANE'
Fever
Roth spots
Osler's nodes (Painful; men are rough)
Murmur
Janeway lesions (Painless, women are gentle)
Anaemia (Normocytic, normochromic)
Nail changes (Clubbing and splinter haemorrhages)
Emboli