Clinical Value and Limitations of Echocardiography
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 140 (8) , 1022-1027
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1980.00330190034014
Abstract
• The echocardiographic laboratory is frequently requested to "rule out" endocarditis. The sensitivity of echocardiography in detecting vegetations has been well studied; the specificity is not known, but few false-positive studies have been reported, and the clinical implications of the study are controversial. This review summarizes the state of the art of the echocardiographic evaluation of patients with suspected clinical endocarditis. (Arch Intern Med 140:1022-1027, 1980)This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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