Echocardiography, particularly transesophageal imaging, improves the detection of intracardiac manifestations of infective endocarditis and is incorporated into the new Duke diagnostic criteria.
What is the role of echocardiography in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis according to the new Duke criteria?
This review highlights the critical role of echocardiography, particularly transesophageal imaging, in diagnosing infective endocarditis and its integration into the Duke criteria.
When infective endocarditis is a diagnostic possibility, echocardiography permits noninvasive imaging of cardiac structures. As involvement of the endocardium is a sine qua non of endocarditis, echocardiography may assist in its diagnosis by demonstrating such involvement. The ability of echocardiography to detect the intracardiac manifestations of infective endocarditis has continued to improve, especially with the introduction of transesophageal imaging. This article will discuss some of the echocardiographic findings in endocarditis and elucidate the incorporation of these findings in the new Duke criteria for the diagnosis of endocarditis.
Dodds et al. (Wed,) conducted a review in Infective endocarditis. Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography, particularly transesophageal imaging, improves the detection of intracardiac manifestations of infective endocarditis and is incorporated into the new Duke diagnostic criteria.
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