Cardiac imaging in infectious endocarditis

European Heart Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 624-632

  Bruun, Niels Eske ^a   Habib, Gilbert ^b   Thuny, Franck ^b   Sogaard, Peter ^a  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; Multimodal imaging; Valve disease

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM 67; INDIUM 111; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ABSCESS; ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD VESSEL PERFORATION; CARDIAC DEVICE INFECTION; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC IMPLANT; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEVICE INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMBOLISM; FALSE ANEURYSM; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE PROLAPSE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; REVIEW; RIGHT SIDED INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPONDYLITIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ENDOCARDITIS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; VALVE DISEASE;

CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84898039263     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/eht274     Document Type: Review

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