[Diagnostic approach to infectious endocarditis].
Major advances in imaging and microbiological procedures have changed the diagnostic approach of infective endocarditis. New imaging tools have improved the search of local complications, systemic embolism and diagnosis of infection of cardiac devices. Moreover, microbiological diagnosis has been transformed by molecular techniques as long as these procedures have highlighted microorganisms thus far neglected by classical techniques. Despite these advances, endocarditis remained a clinical diagnosis which still depends on a high index of clinical suspicion.
Université Paris-Descartes, unité mobile de microbiologie clinique, service de microbiologie, Hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, AP-HP, 75908 Paris Cedex.
Perrine
P
Parize
Jean-Luc
JL
Mainardi
D000465:Algorithms; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019937:Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008828:Microbiological Techniques / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data