Comparative Sensitivity of Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography in Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis Among Veterans With Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

BACKGROUND: Echocardiography is fundamental for diagnosing infective endocarditis (IE) in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB), but whether all such patients require transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is controversial. METHODS: We identified SAB cases between February 2008 and Ap...

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I publikationen:Open Forum Infect Dis
Huvudupphovsmän: Sekar, Poorani, Johnson, James R., Thurn, Joseph R., Drekonja, Dimitri M., Morrison, Vicki A., Chandrashekhar, Yellapragada, Adabag, Selcuk, Kuskowski, Michael A., Filice, Gregory A.
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: Oxford University Press 2017
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5407216/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28470017
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx035
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