title: [Infectious endocarditis: problems of diagnosis and nomenclature].
abstract: Altogether 240 patients with infectious endocarditis (IE) were examined. The problems of IE diagnosis, particularly the reasons for late and initially erroneous disease diagnosis are discussed on the basis of the authors' own and reported data. The differential-diagnostic table containing the criteria of differential diagnosis of IE, rheumatic fever, systemic lupus erythematosus, lymphogranulomatosis is presented.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000175:diagnosis; D008875:Middle Aged; D012213:Rheumatic Fever / Q000175:diagnosis; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009626:Terminology as Topic
vernacular_title: Infektsionnyĭ éndokardit--voprosy diagnostiki i nomenklatury zabolevaniia.