Value of echocardiography in the preoperative diagnosis of acute bacterial endocarditis
1983
: Open-heart surgery was performed in 26 of 56 patients with acute bacterial endocarditis seen in three years. Non-controllable infection, cardiac failure or embolism were the indications for operation. In all instances pre-operative invasive angiographic diagnosis was dispensed with, indications being based entirely upon clinical findings plus the results of M-mode or cross-sectional echocardiography. In 22 of the 26 patients the pre-operative echocardiographic diagnosis coincided with the intra-operative one. In the other four patients the pre-operative echocardiographic findings were incomplete, but no surgically important information had been missed.
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