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

• Автори: Robert Sogomonian (Автор), Hassan Alkhawam (Автор), Neil Vyas (Автор), JoshPaul Jolly (Автор), James Nguyen (Автор), Emma A. Moradoghli Haftevani (Автор), Ahmed Al-khazraji (Автор), Amar Ashraf (Автор)
• Формат: Книга
• Опубліковано: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Предмети: 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...