Clinical criteria and the appropriate use of transthoracic echocardiography for the exclusion of infective endocarditis

Heart

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 273-275

  Greaves, K ^a,b   Mou, D ^a,b   Patel, A ^a,b   Celermajer, David S ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0037370804     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heart.89.3.273     Document Type: Article

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