Evaluation of vegetation size and its relationship with embolism in infective endocarditis: A real-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography study

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 149-154

  Berdejo, Javier ^a   Shibayama, Kentaro ^a   Harada, Kenji ^a   Tanaka, Jun ^a   Mihara, Hirotsugu ^a   Gurudevan, Swaminatha V ^a   Siegel, Robert J ^a   Shiota, Takahiro ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Embolism; Endocarditis

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EMBOLIC EVENT; EMBOLISM; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM LENGTH OF VEGETATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; PATIENT CODING; PERFORATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME THREE DIMENSIONAL TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; AGED; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART VALVE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART VALVES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84897018670     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.113.000938     Document Type: Article

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