Diagnostic value of imaging in infective endocarditis: a systematic review

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages e1-e14

  Gomes, Anna ^a   Glaudemans, Andor W J M ^a   Touw, Daan J ^a   van Melle, Joost P ^a   Willems, Tineke P ^a   Maass, Alexander H ^a   Natour, Ehsan ^a   Prakken, Niek H J ^a   Borra, Ronald J H ^a   van Geel, Peter Paul ^a   Slart, Riemer H J A ^a,b   van Assen, Sander ^a   Sinha, Bhanu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; GATED SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES;

CARDIAC-GATED SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84991236503     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30141-4     Document Type: Review

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