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An IV drug abuser has been diagnosed with infective endocarditis. He is in the emergency ...

An IV drug abuser has been diagnosed with infective endocarditis.

He is in the emergency department reporting increasing shortness of breath, rapid breathing, chest pain that worsens with breathing, and coughing up blood. The health care provider recognizes this may be caused by:
A) Vegetative emboli traveling in the blood stream to the lungs
B) Blood clots in the left ventricle traveling through the aorta
C) Microemboli being developed in the carotids by Staphylococcus epidermidis
D) Infarction of the tissue surrounding the endocardium of the heart

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