Validation of VIRSTA and Predicting Risk of Endocarditis Using a Clinical Tool (PREDICT) Scores to Determine the Priority of Echocardiography in Patients With Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia.
Juan Sebastián Peinado-AcevedoJuan José Hurtado-GuerraCarolina HincapiéJuanita Mesa-AbadJosé Roberto Uribe-DelgadoSantiago Giraldo-RamírezPaula A Lengerke-DiazFabian Alberto Jaimes BarragánPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
In patients with negative VIRSTA, screening echocardiography may be unnecessary because of the low frequency of IE. In PREDICT-negative patients, despite the low frequency of IE, it is not safe to omit echocardiography.