Update on echocardiography in the management of infective endocarditis

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 373-380

  Sedgwick, J F ^a   Burstow, D J ^a,b  

^a THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Appropriateness criteria; Cardiac devices; Cardiac surgery; Echocardiography; Heart failure; Infective endocarditis; Intraoperative echocardiography; Perivalvular abscess; Prosthetic valves; Three Dimensional (3D) Echocardiography; Transesophageal echocardiography; Valvular regurgitation; Vegetations

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 84865654513     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-012-0262-8     Document Type: Article

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