Population
62-year-old man with an indwelling pacemaker hospitalized for cyclic episodes of fever, with a history of…
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Supports echocardiography for suspected pacemaker endocarditis; leaves open need for prospective validation before broader adoption.
Two-dimensional echocardiography is a useful non-invasive tool for detecting right-sided vegetations in patients with suspected pacemaker-induced endocarditis.
E. J. Eichhorn (1981) studied this question.