Avoiding transthoracic echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography for patients with variable body mass indexes in infective endocarditis

• Main Authors: Robert Sogomonian (Author), Hassan Alkhawam (Author), Neil Vyas (Author), JoshPaul Jolly (Author), James Nguyen (Author), Emma A. Moradoghli Haftevani (Author), Ahmed Al-khazraji (Author), Amar Ashraf (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Echocardiography has been a popular modality used to aid in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) with the modified Duke criteria. We evaluated the necessity between the uses of either a transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) or transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in patients wit...