Echocardiography in infective endocarditis

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 744-755

  Kemp Jr , W Evans ^a   Citrin, Benjamin ^a   Byrd III, Benjamin F ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ABSCESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0344995243     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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