Culture-negative suppurative endocarditis causing severe mitral valve obstruction: Complementary use of transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 429-434

  Roychoudhury, Debasish ^a   Chaithiraphan, Vithaya ^a   Stathopoulos, Ioannis A ^a   Fergus, Icilma ^a   Tortolani, Anthony ^a   Murkis, Marina A ^a   Messineo, Frank ^a  

^a NY Hospital Medical Center of Queens   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Endocarditis; Mitral valve obstruction; Shock

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS;

EID: 0037899018     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.03080.x     Document Type: Article

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