PART 8: Infectious Diseases
SECTION 2 Clinical Syndromes: Community-Acquired Infections
124 Infective Endocarditis
 | Figure 124-1 Vegetations (arrows) due to viridans streptococcal endocarditis involving the mitral valve. |
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 | Figure 124-2 Septic emboli with hemorrhage and infarction due to acute Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis. (Used with permission of L. Baden.) |
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 | Figure 124-3 Imaging of a mitral valve infected with Staphylococcus aureus by low-esophageal four-chamber-view transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). A. Two-dimensional echocardiogram showing a large vegetation with an adjacent echolucent abscess cavity.... |
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 | Figure 124-4 The diagnostic use of transesophageal and transtracheal echocardiography (TEE and TTE, respectively).†High initial patient risk for endocarditis as listed in |
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