Prioritizing echocardiography in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia
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Prioritizing echocardiography in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia.
OBJECTIVES Infective endocarditis (IE) is a severe complication in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) and recent guidelines from the BSAC recommend all patients undergo echocardiography. We assessed the use of echocardiography at a major tertiary referral centre and sought to identify those patients most likely to have positive findings. METHODS We retrospectively evaluated all cases of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0305-7453,1460-2091
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks408