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01-06-2018 | Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine

Real-time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography fails to discriminate between infectious vegetation and artifact

Authors: Marine Goudelin, Ana Catalina Hernandez Padilla, Céline Gonzalez, Philippe Vignon

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 6/2018

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Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is the reference imaging technique for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE). Real-time three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography is increasingly used as a potentially more sensitive diagnostic tool, but it may also generate confounding artifacts. …

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Title: Real-time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography fails to discriminate between infectious vegetation and artifact
Authors: Marine Goudelin
Ana Catalina Hernandez Padilla
Céline Gonzalez
Philippe Vignon
Publication date: 01-06-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 6/2018
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-5038-z

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