Improvement in the Diagnosis of Abscesses Associated with Endocarditis by Transesophageal Echocardiography
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- 21 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 324 (12), 795-800
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199103213241203
Abstract
Echocardiography is recognized as the method of choice for the noninvasive detection of valvular vegetations in patients with infective endocarditis, with transesophageal echocardiography being more accurate than transthoracic echocardiography. The diagnosis of associated abscesses by transthoracic echocardiography is difficult or even impossible in many cases, however, and it is not known whether transesophageal echocardiography is any better.Keywords
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