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

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...

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Principais autores:	Robert Sogomonian, Hassan Alkhawam, Neil Vyas, JoshPaul Jolly, James Nguyen, Emma A. Moradoghli Haftevani, Ahmed Al-khazraji, Amar Ashraf
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	Greater Baltimore Medical Center 2016-04-01
coleção:	Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
Assuntos:	Infective endocarditis Echocardiogram Transesophageal echocardiogram Transthoracic echocardiogram Body Mass index
Acesso em linha:	http://www.jchimp.net/index.php/jchimp/article/view/30860/pdf_134
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