Are all echocardiographic findings equally predictive for diagnosis in prosthetic endocarditis?

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 664-669

  Ronderos, Ricardo E ^a,b   Portis, Marcelo ^a   Stoermann, Walter ^a   Sarmiento, Carlos ^a  

^a Casa Hospital San Juan de Dios   (Argentina)

^b Instituto de Cardiologia La Plata   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD REGURGITATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCARDITIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; HEART ABSCESS; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 3042710798     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2004.03.024     Document Type: Article

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