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Echocardiography in bacterial endocarditis

Report By: Qasim Mahmood - SHO Medicine
Search checked by Ipshita Roy - F2 Medicine
Institution: Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital Margate.
Date Submitted: 12th May 2004
Last Modified: 13th June 2007
Status: Red (incomplete)

Three Part Question

[In patients with suspected bacterial endocarditis] does [a negative ECHO] exclude [bacterial endocarditis]