Am I At Risk Of Endocarditis?
Only some heart conditions put you at risk of developing infective endocarditis. These include:
some types of disease affecting the heart valves
having a replacement heart valve
some types of heart problem present from birth that affect the structure of the heart, even if you have had an operation to correct the problem (but if you have a condition called an isolated atrial septal defect, a repaired ventricular septal defect or a repaired patent ductus arteriosus, you are not at risk of infective endocarditis)
a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
having had infective endocarditis before.
