Discriminative Ability and Reliability of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Characterizing Cases of Cardiac Device Lead Vegetations Versus Noninfectious Echodensities.
Merit P GeorgeZerelda Esquer GarrigosPrakhar VijayvargiyaNandan S AnavekarSushil Allen LuisWalter R WilsonLarry M BaddourMuhammad Rizwan SohailPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
Infectious vs noninfectious lead echodensities could not be reliably distinguished on the basis of size, mobility, and general shape descriptors obtained from a retrospective blinded TEE examination without knowledge of clinical and microbiological parameters. Therefore, a reanalysis of criteria used to support a diagnosis of CIED lead infection may be warranted.