Echocardiography predicts embolic events in infective endocarditis

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1077-1079

  Shapiro, Shelley ^a   Kupferwasser, Leon Iri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY;

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EMBOLISM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; STROKE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0035869471     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01149-4     Document Type: Editorial

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