Role of cerebral imaging on diagnosis and management in patients with suspected infective endocarditis.
Matthaios Papadimitriou-OlivgerisBenoit GueryNicoleta IanculescuVincent DunetYosra MessaoudiSilvia PistocchiPiergiorgio TozziMatthias KirschPierre MonneyPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2023)
Cer-Im in asymptomatic patients with IE suspicion showed limited potential for improving the diagnosis of IE. Contrariwise, performing Cer-Im in asymptomatic patients with IE may be useful for decision making, since Cer-Im findings led to the establishment of new operative indication for valvular surgery in one fifth of patients according to ESC guidelines.