The ability of vegetation size on echocardiography to predict clinical complications: A meta-analysis

Improvement in the Diagnosis of Abscesses Associated with Endocarditis by Transesophageal Echocardiography

1991 • 722 citations

Echocardiography in infective endocarditis: Reassessment of prognostic implications of vegetation size determined by the transthoracic and the transesophageal approach

1989 • 657 citations

A comparison of statistical methods for combining event rates from clinical trials

1989 • 426 citations

Emboli in Infective Endocarditis: The Prognostic Value of Echocardiography

1991 • 407 citations

Improved diagnostic value of echocardiography in patients with infective endocarditis by transoesophageal approach. A prospective study

1988 • 380 citations

Echocardiographic assessment of patients with infectious endocarditis: Prediction of risk for complications

1991 • 326 citations

A GENERAL ESTIMATOR FOR THE VARIANCE OF THE MANTEL HAENSZEL ODDS RATIO

1986 • 307 citations

Echocardiographic documentation of vegetative lesions in infective endocarditis: clinical implications.

1980 • 272 citations

Improved diagnostic value of echocardiography in patients with infective endocarditis by transoesophageal approach. A prospective study

1988 • 267 citations

Infective endocarditis, 1983–1988: Echocardiographic findings and factors influencing morbidity and mortality

1990 • 192 citations

Clinical relevance of vegetation localization by transoesophageal echocardiography in infective endocarditis

1992 • 178 citations

Prediction of Rapid versus Prolonged Healing of Infective Endocarditis by Monitoring Vegetation Size

1991 • 161 citations

Value of Transesophageal Echocardiography as an Adjunct to Transthoracic Echocardiography in Evaluation of Native and Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis

1991 • 137 citations

Relation between the presence of echocardiographic vegetations and the complication rate in infective endocarditis

1986 • 134 citations

Prognostic significance of vegetations detected by two-dimensional echocardiography in infective endocarditis

1986 • 119 citations

Value of transthoracic echocardiography in predicting embolic events in active infective endocarditis

1994 • 108 citations

Infective endocarditis and echocardiography

1984 • 107 citations

Life-Threatening Complications of Infective Endocarditis and Their Management

1986 • 102 citations

Enhanced morphological diagnosis in infective endocarditis by transoesophageal echocardiography.

1990 • 101 citations

The demonstration of vegetations by echocardiography in bacterial endocarditis

1980 • 93 citations

Natural history of vegetations during successful medical treatment of endocarditis

1994 • 87 citations

Vegetations in infective endocarditis. Clinical relevance and diagnosis by cross sectional echocardiography.

1985 • 81 citations

Infective endocarditis—A 25 year overview of diagnosis and therapy

1983 • 70 citations

Clinical Implications of Large Vegetations in Infectious Endocarditis

1983 • 58 citations

Transesophageal versus transthoracic echocardiography for diagnosing mitral valve perforation

1992 • 40 citations

Life-threatening complications of infective endocarditis and their management

1986 • 25 citations

Infective Endocarditis in the Transesophageal Echocardiographic Era

1993 • 19 citations

Clinical implications of large vegetations in infectious endocarditis

1983 • 8 citations

Endocarditis: When to operate?

1995 • 1 citations