Bedside Echocardiography Diagnosis of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis in the Emergency Department

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare life-threatening entity that remains difficult to diagnose in the emergency department (ED). Focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS) with transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is an indispensable bedside tool for the emergency physician (EP) to promptly diagnosis and...

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Autores principales: Bacci, Melissa, Patel, Kishan, Cabrera, Gabriel, Kalivoda, Eric J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9592221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36312615
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29541
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author Bacci, Melissa
Patel, Kishan
Cabrera, Gabriel
Kalivoda, Eric J
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description Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare life-threatening entity that remains difficult to diagnose in the emergency department (ED). Focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS) with transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is an indispensable bedside tool for the emergency physician (EP) to promptly diagnosis and expedite clinical management of IE. This report describes a case in which EP-performed FOCUS led to the early identification of right-sided tricuspid valve IE complicated with septic pulmonary emboli.
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spelling pubmed-95922212022-10-27 Bedside Echocardiography Diagnosis of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis in the Emergency Department Bacci, Melissa Patel, Kishan Cabrera, Gabriel Kalivoda, Eric J Cureus Cardiology Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare life-threatening entity that remains difficult to diagnose in the emergency department (ED). Focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS) with transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is an indispensable bedside tool for the emergency physician (EP) to promptly diagnosis and expedite clinical management of IE. This report describes a case in which EP-performed FOCUS led to the early identification of right-sided tricuspid valve IE complicated with septic pulmonary emboli. Cureus 2022-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9592221/ /pubmed/36312615 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29541 Text en Copyright © 2022, Bacci et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Bedside Echocardiography Diagnosis of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis in the Emergency Department
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title_fullStr Bedside Echocardiography Diagnosis of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis in the Emergency Department
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title_short Bedside Echocardiography Diagnosis of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis in the Emergency Department
title_sort bedside echocardiography diagnosis of tricuspid valve infective endocarditis in the emergency department
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9592221/
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