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The ESC and AHA guidelines provide detailed recommendations for the use of echocardiography and advanced multimodality imaging in the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis.
This review provides a comparative analysis of the latest ESC and AHA guidelines for the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis in adults.
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Supports guideline-directed echocardiography and multimodality imaging in infective endocarditis; leaves open prospective validation of implementation and outcomes.
Over recent years, new evidence has led a rethinking of the available guidance on the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis (IE). This review compares the most recently available guidance provided by the American Heart Association (AHA) IE Writing Committee, and the Task Force for the management of IE of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). This represents the sixth of a new series of comparative guidelines review published in the Journal.
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Murphy et al. (2018) conducted a review in Infective endocarditis. ESC and AHA guidelines was evaluated. The ESC and AHA guidelines provide detailed recommendations for the use of echocardiography and advanced multimodality imaging in the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis.
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