Use of echocardiography in the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 283-290

  Chu, Vivian H ^a   Bayer, Arnold S ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AORTA STENOSIS; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 34547480356     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-007-0044-x     Document Type: Review

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