Limitations and discrepancies of transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography compared with surgical findings in patients submitted to surgery for complications of infective endocarditis

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 660-666

  Cicioni, Catia ^a   Luzio, Vittorio Di ^b   Emidio, Lorenzo Di ^b   Remigis, Franco De ^b   Fragassi, Giovanni ^b   Gregorini, Renato ^b   Mazzola, Alessandro ^b   Paparoni, Saro ^b   Prosperi, Franco ^b   Ferri, Claudio ^c  

^a Civic Hospital   (Italy)

^b G Mazzini Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Endocarditis; Transoesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART ABSCESS; HEART VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VIDEORECORDING;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33748278920     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/01.JCM.0000242998.74923.4d     Document Type: Article

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