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Suggest Treatment For Palpitation And Shortness Of Breath After Injection Shot

My name is Ken Karson, I am an inner city hospital which is often the sight of emergency treatment for IV users. I have a history of using whatever needles I can get o injections and often am not careful about the cleanliness of his skin at injection sights. Some of the symptoms I have experienced are Rapid irregular heart beat marked shortness of breath petechial lesions of the skin conjunctiva and the oral mucosa weight loss back pain night sweats urine abnormalities.
Tue, 25 Apr 2017
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Hello
thanks for posting here.
Given your history and symptoms, you have high probability of infective endocarditis. It is a disease of the heart valves. IV users are most likely to get right sided infective endocarditis of heart valves because of unsterile methods by which bacteria gain direct access to the heart endocardium.
And also please get your HIV HbsAg and HCV checked which are transmitted by blood, given your history of iv use.
To evaluate infectious endocarditis, you must do a blood culture which is a blood test and a 2 D echo which will demonstrate bacterial growth on the valves of the heart.
take care.
Regards.
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Suggest Treatment For Palpitation And Shortness Of Breath After Injection Shot

Hello thanks for posting here. Given your history and symptoms, you have high probability of infective endocarditis. It is a disease of the heart valves. IV users are most likely to get right sided infective endocarditis of heart valves because of unsterile methods by which bacteria gain direct access to the heart endocardium. And also please get your HIV HbsAg and HCV checked which are transmitted by blood, given your history of iv use. To evaluate infectious endocarditis, you must do a blood culture which is a blood test and a 2 D echo which will demonstrate bacterial growth on the valves of the heart. take care. Regards.