Biventricular Mural Vegetations in a Patient Without Valvular Pathology

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 938.e5-938.e7

  Ahmed, Imdad ^a   Katz, Daniel H ^a   Crooke, Gregory A ^a   Li, Maomi ^a   Doddamani, Sanjay ^a   Haramati, Linda B ^a   Ostfeld, Robert J ^a   Gordon, Garet M ^a   Spevack, Daniel M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; EMBOLISM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; SEPSIS; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 33745641548     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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