[Diagnosis of myocardial lesions in infectious endocarditis].
To decide on treatment policy and specify prognosis in infectious endocarditis (IE) it is necessary to investigate myocardium. This is better to do using most informative criteria of myocardial affection--structural and geometrical changes of the left ventricle, various focal lesions, high-grade ventricular extrasystole, supraventricular tachycardia, atrioventricular block of various degree.
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D000328:Adult; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D011379:Prognosis; D012720:Severity of Illness Index