The potential impact of contemporary transthoracic echocardiography on the management of patients with native valve endocarditis: A comparison with transesophageal echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 900-906

  Casella, Francesco ^a   Rana, Bushra ^a   Casazza, Giovanni ^b   Bhan, Amit ^a   Kapetanakis, Stam ^a   Omigie, Joe ^a   Reiken, Joseph ^a   Monaghan, Mark J ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnostic accuracy; Infective endocarditis; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 69949147504     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.00906.x     Document Type: Article

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