ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2018
Benefit of Echocardiography in Patients With
Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Validation of the VIRSTA and VIRSTA+ Scores to Identify Patients with Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia at Very Low Risk of Infective Endocarditis.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2026Article
- Contemporary Management of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia-Controversies in Clinical Practice.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Review
- Unreliability of Clinical Prediction Rules to Exclude without Echocardiography Infective Endocarditis inJournal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Forgoing transesophageal echocardiogram in selected patients with complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2021Article
- Efficacy of Early Oral Switch with β-Lactams for Low-RiskAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2020Article
- A Scenario-Based Survey of Expert Echocardiography Recommendations for Patients With Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia at Varying Risk for Endocarditis.JAMA network open · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe risk of endocarditis among patients with
methodsWe used decision analysis and Monte Carlo simulation using input parameters taken from the existing literature. The model examined patients with
resultsThe optimal echocardiography strategy varied with the risk of endocarditis and the procedural mortality associated with transesophageal echocardiography. No echocardiography strategy offered an absolute benefit in 90-day survival of more than 0.5% compared with the strategy of not performing echocardiography and treating with short-course therapy. Strategies using transesophageal echocardiography were never preferred if the mortality of this procedure was greater than 0.5%.
conclusionsIn patients identified to be at low risk of endocarditis, the choice of echocardiography strategy appears to exert a very small influence on 90-day survival. This finding may render test-treatment trials unfeasible and should prompt clinicians to focus on other, more important, management considerations in these patients.
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