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Imaging in Infective Endocarditis—Current Opinions and Trends in Cardiac Computed Tomography

Diagnostics, ISSN: 2075-4418, Vol: 14, Issue: 13
2024
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New Infective Endocarditis Study Findings Have Been Published by Researchers at University Clinical Center of Serbia (Imaging in Infective Endocarditis-Current Opinions and Trends in Cardiac Computed Tomography)

2024 JUL 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Heart Disease Daily -- Data detailed on infective endocarditis have been presented. According

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Infective endocarditis is a rare disease with an increasing incidence and an unaltered high mortality rate, despite medical development. Imaging plays an integrative part in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis, with echocardiography as the initial diagnostic test. Research data in the utility of cardiac computed tomography (CCT) in the diagnostic algorithm of IE are rising, which indicates its importance in detection of IE-related lesion along with the exclusion of coronary artery disease. The latest 2023 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines in the management of IE classified CCT as class of recommendation I and level of evidence B in detection of both valvular and paravalvular lesions in native and prosthetic valve endocarditis. This review article provides a comprehensive and contemporary review of the role of CCT in the diagnosis of IE, the optimization of acquisition protocols, the morphology characteristics of IE-related lesions, the published data of the diagnostic performance of CCT in comparison to echocardiography as the state-of-art method, as well as the limitations and future possibilities.

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Petkovic, Ana; Menkovic, Nemanja; Petrovic, Olga; Bilbija, Ilija; Nisevic, Miodrag; Radovanovic, Nikola N; Stanisavljevic, Dejana; Putnik, Svetozar; Maksimovic, Ruzica; Ivanovic, Branislava

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