A 41-Year-Old Man Comes to the Emergency Department Due to 3

question 238

Multiple Choice

A 41-year-old man comes to the emergency department due to 3 days of fever, chills, and nonproductive cough.  The patient has also felt tired and weak during this period.  He has a history of injection drug use and has been hospitalized several times for injection site cellulitis.  Temperature is 38.3 C (101 F) , blood pressure is 125/72 mm Hg, and pulse is 112/min and regular.  Cardiopulmonary auscultation reveals scattered rhonchi and a cardiac murmur, which were not previously present.  Laboratory evaluation shows leukocytosis, and chest x-ray reveals nodular opacities. Echocardiography of this patient is most likely to reveal which of the following findings?

• A)Aortic regurgitation
• B)Aortic stenosis
• C)Interventricular septal defect
• D)Mitral regurgitation
• E)Pulmonic stenosis
• F)Tricuspid regurgitation

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