Cardiovascular causes of digital clubbing include all of the following Except:
Answer is D (Aoic Dissection) Aoic Dissection is not a known cause for digital clubbing: Digital clubbing results from long standing conditions that take months to develop. It is not associated with acute event like aoic dissection Cardiovascular causes of Digital clubbing (Ultra medicine (2005)/285) Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis(SBE) Cyanotic congenital Hea Disease - Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) - Transposition of Great vessels (TGV) - Total Anomolous pulmonary venous circulation (TAPVC) - Ebstein's Anomaly - Tricuspid Atresia Atrial Myxoma Aerio venous malformations (Brochial aeriovenous fistula) Axillary aery Aneurysms Clubbing is a feature of Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis (SBE) and is not seen in Acute Bacterial Endocarditis Acute endocarditis is a fitIminant event while clubbing takes months to develop. Acute bacterial endocarditis is not associated with clubbing.
Infective Endocarditis
Aeriovenous Fistulos
Tricuspid Atresia
Aoic Dissection