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== Investigations ==


* Consider using the [[HANDOC score]] to risk stratify for need for [[echocardiography]]
== Risk Stratification: HANDOC ==

* Risk stratified for [[endocarditis]] that has been validated in a Swedish cohort [[CiteRef::sunnerhagen2017ha]]
* Criteria:
** Heart murmur or preexisting valve disease, including prosthetic valve
** Aetiology with the groups of [[Streptococcus mutans]], [[Streptococcus bovis]], [[Streptococcus sanguinis]], or [[Streptococcus anginosus]]
** Number of positive blood cultures β‰₯2
** Duration of symptoms of 7 days or more
** Only 1 species growing in blood cultures
** Community-acquired infection
* Interpretation:
** Score <3, IE is effectively excluded
** Score β‰₯3, cannot exclude IE

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Investigations

References

  1. ^  Torgny Sunnerhagen, Amanda TΓΆrnell, Maria Vikbrant, Bo Nilson, Magnus Rasmussen. HANDOC: A Handy Score to Determine the Need for Echocardiography in Non-Ξ²-Hemolytic Streptococcal Bacteremia. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2017;66(5):693-698. doi:10.1093/cid/cix880.