title: [The value of echocardiography in diagnosis of bacterial endocarditis].
abstract: In recent years echocardiography has become the most important method for the diagnosis of bacterial endocarditis. Though identification of valve vegetations by M-mode echocardiography was rather limited, two dimensional echocardiography--especially with transoesophageal application--has a sensitivity of more than 90% and a specificity of 98%. In addition, echocardiography is able to supply valuable contributions for the evaluation of the patient's prognosis and in the identification of complications of infective endocarditis, such as: the extent of valve destruction, rupture of chordeae and other parts of the valves, as well as the presence of intramyocardial and paravalvular abscesses. In addition, the application of Doppler-echocardiography allows the semiquantitative evaluation of the degree of any valve insufficiency.
authors.affiliation: III. Medizinischen Abteilung, Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital, Stadt Wien.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Spinka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zangeneh
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004452:Echocardiography; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: Stellenwert der Echokardiographie in der Diagnostik der bakteriellen Endokarditis.