کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5610476 1577833 2012 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Role of Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography in Right-Sided Endocarditis: One Echocardiographic Modality Does Not Fit All
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی کاردیولوژی و پزشکی قلب و عروق
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Role of Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography in Right-Sided Endocarditis: One Echocardiographic Modality Does Not Fit All
چکیده انگلیسی
The added value of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) over transthoracic echocardiography in the assessment of left-sided infective endocarditis has been extensively validated in the literature. Little research has dealt with the role of echocardiography in right-sided infective endocarditis (RSE), however. In this review, the differences between RSE and left-sided endocarditis and the different types of RSE according to the types of patients who have the disease are described. Both issues have important implications for echocardiographic workup. Moreover, a systematic echocardiographic protocol to avoid missing right-sided vegetations and several specific morphologic aspects of RSE are reviewed. Normal right-sided structures, which may mimic vegetations, particularly when the clinical picture is compatible, are described. Finally, the value of transthoracic echocardiography and TEE in RSE is reviewed according to the publications available. The diagnostic yield of transthoracic echocardiography is comparable with that of TEE in intravenous drug users. On the contrary, TEE is mandatory in patients with cardiac devices. A Bayesian-based diagnostic approach is proposed for a third poorly characterized group of patients with RSE who are not drug addicts, have no cardiac devices, and have no left-sided endocarditis (the “three no's” endocarditis group).
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - Volume 25, Issue 8, August 2012, Pages 807-814
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