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Choice of Echocardiography in bacterial endocarditis

Report By: Qasim Mahmood - Senior House Officer
Search checked by Ipshita Roy - SHO Medicine
Institution: Queen Mother Queen Elizabeth Hospital Margate
Date Submitted: 8th August 2007
Last Modified: 31st August 2007
Status: Red (incomplete)

Three Part Question

[In patients with suspected bacterial endocarditis] is [ Transoesphageal echocardiography better than trasthoracic] for[diagnosis of endocarditis]