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Echocardiography, particularly transesophageal echocardiography, provides essential information for the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis and its intracardiac complications.
Echocardiography, particularly transesophageal echocardiography, plays a crucial role in diagnosing and managing infective endocarditis and its complications.
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Supports TEE in suspected IE; leaves open need for prospective trials on timing and outcomes.
Echocardiography is a most useful bedside tool to help in the diagnosis and subsequent management of patients with infective endocarditis. Transesophageal echocardiography provides complementary and often incremental information necessary in making a diagnosis, and in identifying associated intracardiac complications. This chapter will focus on the role of echocardiography in the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis.
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Lester et al. (2007) conducted a review in Infective endocarditis. Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography, particularly transesophageal echocardiography, provides essential information for the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis and its intracardiac complications.
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