Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography for the Indication of Suspected Infective Endocarditis: Vegetations, Blood Cultures and Imaging

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 396-402

  Kini, Vinay ^a   Logani, Sachin ^a   Ky, Bonnie ^a   Chirinos, Julio A ^a   Ferrari, Victor A ^a   St John Sutton, Martin G ^a   Wiegers, Susan E ^a   Kirkpatrick, James N ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood cultures; Endocarditis; TEE

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; FUNGEMIA; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77950071502     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.12.017     Document Type: Article

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