A "strange cough": 3D-echocardiography for diagnosis of late tricuspid valve endocarditis in a former drug addict with septic pulmonary emboli

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Brunetti, Natale Daniele ^a   De Gennaro, Luisa ^a   Basile, Domenica Paola ^b   De Cillis, Emanuela ^b   Acquaviva, Tommaso ^b   Boscia, Filippo ^a   Di Biase, Matteo ^a   Bortone, Alessandro Santo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D Echocardiogram; Septic pulmonary emboli; Tricuspid valve endocarditis

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; AMOXICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLAVULANIC ACID; FLUCONAZOLE; LEVOFLOXACIN; TEICOPLANIN; TROPONIN;

ADULT; CARDIAC IMAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ENDOCARDITIS; FEVER; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG NODULE; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

EID: 81055157344     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.01.069     Document Type: Article

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