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Diagnosis and Medical Management of Infective Endocarditis: Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography
Author(s) -
SUTTON MARTIN ST. JOHN,
LEE RICHARD T.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1990.tb00734.x
Subject(s) - medicine , infective endocarditis , endocarditis , modality (human–computer interaction) , vegetation (pathology) , radiology , intensive care medicine , cardiology , pathology , human–computer interaction , computer science
A bstract The use of echocardiography in the diagnosis of vegetative endocarditis has been a keystone in the diagnosis and treatment of this important clinical syndrome. In addition, with the use of transesophageal echo this modality has now made important advances in not only diagnosis but in evaluation of global cardiac function. A considerable amount of information has been gathered on the vegetation and these data will be discussed.