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Infective Endocarditis

Infective endocarditis (IE) is an infection caused by organisms that enter the bloodstream and that typically infect one or more of the cardiac valves, the endocardial surface of the heart, or an intracardiac device. Despite advances in medical and surgical…

Echocardiography

Echocardiography is a highly reproducible, safe, and widely available noninvasive imaging technique integral to the practice of modern clinical cardiology. With the use of high-frequency ultrasound to image cardiac and great vessel structure and blood flow, this method provides definitive…