INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS

Proposed Modifications to the Duke Criteria for the Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis

2000 • 3,775 citations

New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis: utilization of specific echocardiographic findings

1994 • 2,498 citations

Guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infective endocarditis (new version 2009): The Task Force on the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infective Endocarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

2009 • 1,930 citations

Guidelines for Prevention of Stroke in Patients With Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack

2006 • 1,866 citations

ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease

2006 • 1,679 citations

ACC/AHA/ASE 2003 guideline update for the clinical application of echocardiography: summary article

2003 • 1,404 citations

Primary Prevention of Ischemic Stroke

2006 • 1,367 citations

Epidemiology of Ischemic Stroke Subtypes According to TOAST Criteria

2001 • 1,207 citations

Recommendations for Evaluation of Prosthetic Valves With Echocardiography and Doppler Ultrasound

2009 • 1,186 citations

Guidelines for Performing a Comprehensive Transesophageal Echocardiographic Examination: Recommendations from the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists

2013 • 1,143 citations

Cardiac Myxomas

1995 • 1,068 citations

Changing Profile of Infective Endocarditis<SUBTITLE>Results of a 1-Year Survey in France</SUBTITLE>

2002 • 958 citations

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

1991 • 722 citations

Guidelines on Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Infective Endocarditis Executive Summary The Task Force on Infective Endocarditis of the European Society of Cardiology

2004 • 720 citations

Risk of Embolism and Death in Infective Endocarditis: Prognostic Value of Echocardiography

2005 • 654 citations

Recommendations for the practice of echocardiography in infective endocarditis

2010 • 572 citations

Transesophageal Echocardiographic Correlates of Thromboembolism in High-Risk Patients with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation

1998 • 494 citations

ACCF/ASE/AHA/ASNC/HFSA/HRS/SCAI/SCCM/SCCT/SCMR 2011 Appropriate Use Criteria for Echocardiography

2011 • 482 citations

Diagnostic value of transesophageal compared with transthoracic echocardiography in infective endocarditis

1991 • 439 citations

Infective Endocarditis Epidemiology Over Five Decades: A Systematic Review

2013 • 413 citations

Management of infective endocarditis: challenges and perspectives

2012 • 413 citations

Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis: A review

1987 • 386 citations

Contrast echocardiography: evidence-based recommendations by European Association of Echocardiography

2008 • 345 citations

Complicated Left-Sided Native Valve Endocarditis in Adults

2003 • 332 citations

Pacemaker infective endocarditis

1998 • 314 citations

Cardioembolic stroke: an update

2003 • 311 citations

Comparison of transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography for detection of abnormalities of prosthetic and bioprosthetic valves in the mitral and aortic positions

1993 • 298 citations

Analysis of the Impact of Early Surgery on In-Hospital Mortality of Native Valve Endocarditis

2010 • 294 citations

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

1988 • 267 citations

Impact of Contrast Echocardiography on Evaluation of Ventricular Function and Clinical Management in a Large Prospective Cohort

2009 • 238 citations

Studies on the Bacteremia of Bacterial Endocarditis

1967 • 234 citations

Atrial fibrillation and stroke prevention

2007 • 231 citations

Cardiac sources of embolism and cerebral infarction—clinical consequences and vascular concomitants

1991 • 229 citations

Transesophageal Echocardiography in Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis

1994 • 221 citations

Periannular extension of infective endocarditis

2002 • 216 citations

Prosthetic valve endocarditis

1980 • 209 citations

Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis

2007 • 198 citations

Sensitivity of transthoracic versus transesophageal echocardiography for the detection of native valve vegetations in the modern era

2003 • 197 citations

Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis

1976 • 192 citations

Perivalvular abscesses associated with endocarditis Clinical features and prognostic factors of overall survival in a series of 233 cases

1999 • 191 citations

Implication of negative results on a monoplane transesophageal echocardiographic study in patients with suspected infective endocarditis

1993 • 191 citations

Infective endocarditis with negative blood cultures

1979 • 186 citations

Abscess in infective endocarditis: The value of transesophageal echocardiography and outcome

2007 • 175 citations

The impact of valve surgery on short- and long-term mortality in left-sided infective endocarditis: do differences in methodological approaches explain previous conflicting results?

2009 • 174 citations

[Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis].

1987 • 174 citations

Cardiac valvular vegetations in cancer patients: A prospective echocardiographic study of 200 patients

1997 • 166 citations

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NONBACTERIAL THROMBOTIC ENDOCARDITIS: AN AUTOPSY AND CLINICAL STUDY OF 78 CASES

1957 • 151 citations

Infective Endocarditis

1993 • 147 citations

Improved detection of infective endocarditis with transesophageal echocardiography

1992 • 144 citations

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

1997 • 140 citations

The natural history of left ventricular thrombus in myocardial infarction: A rationale in support of masterly inactivity

1989 • 140 citations

Stroke subtype and mortalitya follow-up study in 998 patients with a first cerebral infarct

2003 • 140 citations

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

1991 • 137 citations

Infarcts with a cardiac source of embolism in the NINCDS Stroke Data Bank

1990 • 134 citations

Role of transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography in predicting embolic events in patients with active infective endocarditis involving native cardiac valves

1997 • 133 citations

Contemporary results of mitral valve repair for infective endocarditis

2004 • 132 citations

Diagnostic Value of Echocardiography in Suspected Endocarditis

1996 • 123 citations

The Duke Criteria for Diagnosing Infective Endocarditis Are Specific: Analysis of 100 Patients with Acute Fever or Fever of Unknown Origin

1996 • 119 citations

Negative predictive value of the Duke criteria for infective endocarditis

1996 • 115 citations

Endocarditis-Associated Paravalvular Abscesses

1995 • 114 citations

10 YEARS OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS AT ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL: ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL FEATURES AND TREATMENT IN RELATION TO PROGNOSIS AND MORTALITY

1980 • 111 citations

Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of Aortic Endocarditis With Periannular Abscess in the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database

2005 • 109 citations

Clinical impact of transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis

1994 • 105 citations

Indications and optimal timing for surgery in infective endocarditis

2004 • 105 citations

Infective Endocarditis: The European Viewpoint

2011 • 92 citations

Clinical criteria and the appropriate use of transthoracic echocardiography for the exclusion of infective endocarditis

2003 • 90 citations

Evaluation of Vegetation Size and Its Relationship With Embolism in Infective Endocarditis

2013 • 90 citations

The importance of secondary mitral valve involvement in primary aortic valve endocarditis. The mitral kissing vegetation

2002 • 89 citations

Infective Endocarditis Caused by β‐Hemolytic Streptococci

1998 • 86 citations

Early differentiation of cardioembolic from atherothrombotic cerebral infarction: a multivariate analysis

1999 • 86 citations

Role of transoesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis and management of aortic root abscess.

1994 • 80 citations

Procalcitonin and the Early Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis

2004 • 77 citations

Impact of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography in patients undergoing valve replacement

2004 • 73 citations

Clinical course, microbiologic profile, and diagnosis of periannular complications in prosthetic valve endocarditis

1999 • 68 citations

Infective endocarditis: a survey of cases in the South-East region of Scotland, 1969-72.

1976 • 66 citations

Surgical Treatment of Candida Endocarditis

1975 • 64 citations

Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography for the Indication of Suspected Infective Endocarditis: Vegetations, Blood Cultures and Imaging

2010 • 60 citations

THE NUMBER OF BLOOD CULTURES NECESSARY TO DIAGNOSE MOST CASES OF BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS

1956 • 60 citations

Pulmonary Valve Endocarditis: Improved Diagnosis with Biplane Transesophageal Echocardiography

1992 • 59 citations

Imaging investigations in infective endocarditis: Current approach and perspectives

2012 • 57 citations

Impact of harmonic imaging on transthoracic echocardiographic identification of infective endocarditis and its complications

2005 • 56 citations

Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis with Recurrent Embolic Events as Manifestation of Ovarian Neoplasm

2006 • 51 citations

When should we operate on patients with acute infective endocarditis?

2010 • 48 citations

Pathophysiology of Infective Endocarditis

2013 • 46 citations

A negative transthoracic echocardiogram obviates the need for transesophageal echocardiography in patients with suspected native valve active infective endocarditis

1996 • 44 citations

The Potential Impact of Contemporary Transthoracic Echocardiography on the Management of Patients with Native Valve Endocarditis: A Comparison with Transesophageal Echocardiography

2009 • 43 citations

What size of vegetation is an indication for surgery in endocarditis?

2012 • 43 citations

SKIN SENSITIVITY TO FLOUR IN BAKERS' APPRENTICES

1967 • 42 citations

Infective endocarditis: a changing disease. I.

1973 • 41 citations

Diagnostic value of harmonic transthoracic echocardiography in native valve infective endocarditis: comparison with transesophageal echocardiography

2007 • 36 citations

Mechanical prosthetic valve-associated strands: Pathologic correlates to transesophageal echocardiography

2003 • 34 citations

Transesophageal echocardiography for the evaluation and management of patients with cerebral ischemia

1999 • 28 citations

REVISED DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS

1996 • 24 citations

Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE): Sufficiently sensitive screening test for native valve infective endocarditis (IE)

2011 • 15 citations

Role of echocardiographic imaging in infective endocarditis

2002 • 4 citations