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Echocardiography in Vegetative Endocarditis

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Book cover The Practice of M-Mode and Two-Dimensional Echocardiography

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 23))

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Abstract

During the past three decades the clinical, microbiological and therapeutic features of infective endocarditis have undergone striking changes. If one searched, today, for the classical diagnostic criteria #x2014; fever, changing murmur, splenomegaly, systemic embolisation and positive blood cultures — one would fail to suspect the diagnosis of infective endocarditis in as many as 90% of patients presenting with this disease process [1].

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Cikes, I. (1983). Echocardiography in Vegetative Endocarditis. In: The Practice of M-Mode and Two-Dimensional Echocardiography. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6790-8_11

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