Diagnostic value of harmonic transthoracic echocardiography in native valve infective endocarditis: comparison with transesophageal echocardiography

BACKGROUND: Although echocardiography has been incorporated into the diagnostic algorithm of patients with suspected infective endocarditis (IE), systematic usage in clinical practice remains ill defined. To determine the diagnostic accuracy of detecting vegetations using harmonic transthoracic echo...

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Autores principales: Jassal, Davinder S, Aminbakhsh, Amin, Fang, Tielan, Shaikh, Nasir, Embil, John M, Mackenzie, Gordon S, Tam, James W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1885427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17511880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-5-20

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1885427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17511880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-5-20

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