Echocardiography predicts embolic events in infective endocarditis

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1069-1076

  Di Salvo, Giovanni ^a   Habib, Gilbert ^a   Pergola, Valeria ^a   Avierinos, Jean François ^a   Philip, Emmanuel ^a   Casalta, Jean Paul ^a   Vailloud, Jean Marie ^a   Derumeaux, Genevieve ^a   Gouvernet, Joany ^a   Ambrosi, Pïerre ^a   Lambert, Marc ^a   Ferracci, Ange ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   Luccioni, Roger ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRAIN EMBOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEGETATION;

AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0035869584     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(00)01206-7     Document Type: Article

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