Importance of experience in transoesophageal echocardiographic evaluation of vegetation size in patients with infective endocarditis: a reliability study.
Louise SchmidtLauge ØstergaardFrederik Fasth GrundLine SchmidtJesper James LindeLars KøberEmil L FosbølPublished in: European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice (2024)
The study showed good to excellent intraclass correlation but high dispersion in all groups. Variance decreased with higher experience. Our findings support current recommendations that complicated cases should be cared for by the multi-disciplinary endocarditis team and underline the importance of echocardiographic expertise when evaluating and measuring vegetations in patients with IE.