Diagnostic accuracy of transthoracic and multiplane transesophageal echocardiography for valvular perforation in acute infective endocarditis: Correlation with anatomic findings

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 825-826

  De Castro, Stefano ^a   Cartoni, Domenico ^a   D Amati, Giulia ^a   Beni, Sergio ^a   Yao, Jiefen ^b   Fiorelli, Marco ^a   Gallo, Pietro ^a   Fedele, Francesco ^a   Pandian, Natesa G ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PERFORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033807193     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313762     Document Type: Article

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